ACUTE cholecystitis remains a common emergency in spite of an increasing volume of elective surgery for the treatment of gall-stones. In 1966 acute cholecystitis was the second commonest emergency admitted to the North Middlesex Hospital, the first being acute appendicitis with 210 cases, then acute
The management of acute cholecystitis
โ Scribed by Alan E. Lee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1958
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 548 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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