Acute biliary conditions in geriatrics: analysis of 151 observations, clinical and diagnostic concepts
The authors performed a diagnostic review of 151 paticnts older than 65 who presented non-neoplasic acute biliary processes. The most frequent clinical findingswere discussed , pointing out: the poor simptomatology reiated to the magnitude of the surgical findings; the hig...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1975 |
| País: | Uruguay |
| Institución: | Sociedad de Cirugía del Uruguay |
| Repositorio: | Revista Cirugía del Uruguay |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.revista.scu.org.uy:article/2609 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/2609 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | colecistitis colangitis cholecystitits cholangitis |
| Sumario: | The authors performed a diagnostic review of 151 paticnts older than 65 who presented non-neoplasic acute biliary processes. The most frequent clinical findingswere discussed , pointing out: the poor simptomatology reiated to the magnitude of the surgical findings; the high nccurrence of signs of participation of the commonbile duct (2 0 % of choledocholitiasis), the frequent eariy peritoneal involvement (9 % of the cases), so frequently ignored ( 7 cases out of 16). and the high incidence of associated affections (s pecially cardiovascula r ailments and d;abetes), which compel to an early surgery in order to correct the imbalance the acute biliary affection means far them. |
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