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Acute Cholecystitis and Jaundice

Archives of Surgery, 1973
Thirty-seven patients with acute cholecystitis and jaundice were studied intraoperatively with cholangiomanometry, and a mechanical lesion explaining the jaundice was found in 23. Six others had probably passed a stone, and one had hepatitis. Several inflammatory factors in this group, when compared with a group of 36 nonjaundiced patients with acute ...
M B, Corlette, H, Bismuth
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Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis

2016
Although stones in the biliary tree (and especially in the gallbladder) are an extremely common (and many times asymptomatic) disorder, they may even be the cause of insidious infections. Acute cholecystitis (AC) is a bacterial infection (most likely preceded by an inflammation of the gallbladder wall) produced by an obstruction of the cystic duct by ...
Federico Coccolini, Andrea Allegri, Marco Ceresoli, Giuseppe D’Amico, Asaf Harbi, Giulia Montori, Gabriela Nita, Francesca Rubertà, Michele Pisano, Luca Ansaloni.   +9 more
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The Management of Acute Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1973
The outcome of acute cholecystitis depends on the obstruction of the gallbladder. If the calculus disimpacts, as it does in 85 per cent of patients, there is rapid resolution enabling an accurate diagnosis to be made and appropriate treatment to be given to bring the patient into optimal condition before definitive operation is performed.
D J, du Plessis, J, Jersky
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Management of acute cholecystitis

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2016
Purpose of review Various aspects of the management of acute calculous cholecystitis, including type and timing of surgery, role of antibiotics, and nonoperative management, remain controversial. This review focuses on recently published studies addressing the timing of cholecystectomy, use of cholecystostomy tubes, and role of
Prabhava, Bagla, Juan C, Sarria, Taylor S, Riall   +2 more
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Cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis

Baillière's Clinical Gastroenterology, 1997
Although much is still to be learned about the pathogenesis of cholelithiasis, recent investigations have greatly advanced our knowledge regarding the mechanisms of cholesterol supersaturation and nucleation. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has lessened the usual peri-operative morbidity of cholecystectomy, but is associated with a higher bile duct injury
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Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1982
To the Editor.— I take strong exception to the views expressed by Ronald Tompkins, MD, in response to a question regarding selection of diagnostic modality for diagnosis of acute cholecystitis (1981;246:2868). I believe he has provided an ambiguous answer to the question and has also denigrated the facts by labeling them nonscientific and nonmedical.
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Acute emphysematous cholecystitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1956
Abstract 1. 1. Two cases of acute emphysematous cholecystitis are described and added to a total of thirty-four cases collected from the literature. 2. 2. The diagnosis is dependent upon the plain film of the abdomen showing gas in the gallbladder lumen. A gas-fluid level is often demonstrated. 3. 3.
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ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1951
R W, BUXTON, D K, RAY, F A, COLLER
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Acute gaseous cholecystitis

The American Journal of Medicine, 1960
Abstract A case of acute gaseous cholecystitis is presented. An abdominal roentgenogram and blood culture established the exact anatomical and etiological diagnosis, acute gaseous cholecystitis with Cl. perfringens bacteremia. Conservative treatment with the administration of massive doses of penicillin and parenteral tetracycline resulted in recovery.
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Acute Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1964
J W, BRAASCH, W M, WHEELER, B P, COLCOCK
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