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The Outcome of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Pregnant Women. [PDF]

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Singhal VK   +4 more
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Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2008
Cholecystitis is the most prevalent surgical condition affecting populations in industrialized countries. Rather than a single clinical entity, cholecystitis is a class of related disease states with different causes, degrees of severity, clinical courses, and management strategies.
Helmberger T   +3 more
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Cholecystitis in adolescents [PDF]

open access: possibleThe American Journal of Digestive Diseases, 1972
The clinicopathologic features in 40 individuals between the ages of 13 and 20 undergoing cholecystectomy were analyzed and found to be a blend of the dissimilar patterns seen in earlier and later years. Only 4 had an associated hemolytic anemia. Females predominated in a ratio of 3.4:1, and a third were parous. Pain and right upper-quadrant tenderness
Murray H. Seltzer   +2 more
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Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2014
Acute cholecystitis is defined as inflammation of the gallbladder and is usually caused by obstruction of the cystic duct. Cholescintigraphy is the most sensitive imaging modality for cholecystitis. The gold standard treatment of acute cholecystitis is laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Lawrence M, Knab   +2 more
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Imaging of Cholecystitis

American Journal of Roentgenology, 2011
tients, such as those in the ICU, in whom clin -ical signs may be masked and imaging signs are less specific compared with the ambulant population [6]. Forty percent of patients with acute cholecystitis develop complications [7] (Table 1), including emphysematous chole-cystitis, which is seen more commonly in men and diabetic patients, with calculi ...
Michael M. Maher, Owen J. O'Connor
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Acute cholecystitis

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 1999
Patients with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis need to be hospitalized, with surgery (ie, cholecystectomy) being the treatment of choice. While hospitalized, they should be treated with intravenous hydration and with intravenous antibiotics covering enteric organisms. They should receive nothing by mouth and may require a nasogastric tube if ileus is
Eneya Mulagha, Hans Fromm
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