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Department of General Surgery, Shijiazhuang People's Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China Background: Preoperative prediction of difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy (DLC) remains challenging, as ...

Early index admission laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be performed in patients with acute cholecystitis to prevent higher grades of operative difficulty and associated complications. This case ...

Using the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) database (1999–2021), which registers more than 99% of deaths in the USA, we obtained decedents with intra-abdominal infection, defined as deaths ...

Normal abdominal examination Bloods showed high white cells ... dose of oral steroids and cyclophosphamide A month later he presented with CT proven acute acalculous cholecystitis and was put down to ...

Surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis in older patients with multiple comorbidities was linked to lower rates of readmissions and emergency department (ED) revisits than nonoperative treatment ...

Patients with pancreas divisum did not experience reduced risk for acute pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde ...

A 75-year-old Irish woman (B.C.H. 1780647) entered the hospital on August 23, 1962, because of continuous nonradiating epigastric pain associated with anorexia, nausea, vomiting . . . From the ...

He had been admitted 3 weeks before presentation because of recurrent abdominal pain and acute kidney injury with a creatinine level of 1.7 mg per deciliter (150.3 μmol per liter), up from a ...