Is early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis preferable to delayed surgery?
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: early or delayed?
The laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is an important approach of treating acute cholecystitis and the timing of performing this given treatment is associated with clinical outcomes. Although several meta-analyses have been done to investigate the optimal timing of implementing this treatment, the conflicting findings from these meta-analyses still confuse decision-making. And thus, we performe...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2012.04.012