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Comparative Quality of Laparoscopic and Open Cholecystectomy in the Elderly Using Propensity Score Matching Analysis

The safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in patients ≥65 years of age requires further investigation of postoperative outcomes before it becomes more widely accepted as a safe technique. The advantages of using LC versus open cholecystectomy (OC) in elderly patients were analyzed using propen...

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Autores principales: Kuwabara, Kazuaki, Matsuda, Shinya, Ishikawa, Koichi Benjamin, Horiguchi, Hiromasa, Fujimori, Kenji
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/490147