TG13 current terminology, etiology, and epidemiology of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-23

  Kimura, Yasutoshi ^a   Takada, Tadahiro ^b   Strasberg, Steven M ^c   Pitt, Henry A ^d   Gouma, Dirk J ^e   Garden, O James ^f   Büchler, Markus W ^g   Windsor, John A ^h   Mayumi, Toshihiko ⁱ   Yoshida, Masahiro ^j   Miura, Fumihiko ^b   Higuchi, Ryota ^k   Gabata, Toshifumi ^l   Hata, Jiro ^m   Gomi, Harumi ⁿ   Dervenis, Christos ^o   Lau, Wan Yee ^p   Belli, Giulio ^q   Kim, Myung Hwan ^r   Hilvano, Serafin C ^s   Yamashita, Yuichi ^t   more..

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

ⁱ Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^j International University of Health and Welfare and International University of Health and Welfare Ichikawa Hospital   (Japan)

^k TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

ⁿ JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^p Prince of Wales Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^q Loreto Nuovo Hospital   (Italy)

^r University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^s UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^t FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

Acute cholangitis; Acute cholecystitis; Epidemiology; Etiology; Terminology

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DAPSONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESTROGEN; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OCTREOTIDE; PROGESTERONE;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE DUCT PRESSURE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BURN; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMATOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER DRAINAGE; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; GALLSTONE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84873458173     PISSN: 18686974     EISSN: 18686982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-012-0564-0     Document Type: Article

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