The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis

Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a distinct clinical disease that carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Maintaining a high index of suspicion, especially in the right patient population, combined with emergency bedside ultrasound can lead to rapid diagnosis and initiation of treatment f...

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Autores principales: Wexler, Brian B, Panebianco, Nova L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Miscellaneous
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5647163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104833
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1520
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description Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a distinct clinical disease that carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Maintaining a high index of suspicion, especially in the right patient population, combined with emergency bedside ultrasound can lead to rapid diagnosis and initiation of treatment for this life threatening condition.
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spelling pubmed-56471632017-11-04 The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis Wexler, Brian B Panebianco, Nova L Cureus Miscellaneous Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a distinct clinical disease that carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Maintaining a high index of suspicion, especially in the right patient population, combined with emergency bedside ultrasound can lead to rapid diagnosis and initiation of treatment for this life threatening condition. Cureus 2017-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5647163/ /pubmed/29104833 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1520 Text en Copyright © 2017, Wexler et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title_full The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title_fullStr The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title_full_unstemmed The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title_short The Effervescent Gallbladder: An Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound Diagnosis of Emphysematous Cholecystitis
title_sort effervescent gallbladder: an emergency medicine bedside ultrasound diagnosis of emphysematous cholecystitis
topic Miscellaneous
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5647163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104833
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1520
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