Acute Calculous Cholecystitis: What is new in diagnosis and therapy?
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Acute Calculous Cholecystitis: What is new in diagnosis and therapy?
The management of patients with acute calculous cholecystitis has changed during recent years. The etiology of acute cholecystitis is still not fully understood. Infection of bile is relatively unimportant since bile and gallbladder wall cultures are sterile in many patients with acute cholecystitis. Ultrasonography is first choice for diagnosis of acute cholecystitis and cholescintigraphy is s...
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عنوان ژورنال: HPB Surgery
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0894-8569
DOI: 10.1155/1992/46529