We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Epidemiologie und Klinik der akuten Cholezystitis.
- Authors
Götzky, K.; Landwehr, P.; Jähne, J.
- Abstract
Acute cholecystitis is the most common complication of cholecystolithiasis. With some 64,000 patients per year requiring surgical inpatient treatment it remains a prevalent surgical disease. The presentation varies between mild, severe and life-threatening forms and predominantly in old and morbid patients. Gallbladder perforation is a possible complication which is often only diagnosed during surgery. Typical clinical symptoms are pain in the upper abdomen, fever and leucocytosis. Ultrasonography may often be used to confirm the clinical diagnosis.
- Subjects
CHOLECYSTITIS; ULTRASONIC imaging; INPATIENT care; SURGICAL diseases; FEVER; LEUCOCYTOSIS
- Publication
Der Chirurg, 2013, Vol 84, Issue 3, p179
- ISSN
0009-4722
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00104-012-2355-1