Percutaneous cholecystostomy in patient at high risk. Treatment of acute acalculous cholecystitis.
Postgrad Med
; 81(1): 209-11, 214, 1987 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-3809037
ABSTRACT
Percutaneous cholecystostomy can be a useful technique for the ill, elderly, or high-risk patient, since he or she is spared open surgery. We used it successfully in a medically unstable woman with acute acalculous cholecystitis. Her drainage catheter, often the source of complications with the procedure, may have been removed too early A small asymptomatic subdiaphragmatic fluid collection and ileus developed. However, both resolved in 48 hours.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cholecystitis
/
Gallbladder
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Aged
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Female
/
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Postgrad Med
Year:
1987
Document type:
Article