Primary cholecystectomy is feasible in elderly patients with acute cholecystitis

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 921-926

  Ambe, Peter C ^a,d   Weber, Sebastian A ^b   Christ, Hildegard ^c   Wassenberg, Dirk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b St Elisabeth Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Remigius Krankenhaus Opladen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Cholecystectomy; Conversion to open surgery; Elderly patients; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Percutaneous cholecystotomy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ANESTHESIA; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84947919034     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-015-0361-0     Document Type: Article

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