Acute acalculous cholecystitis.
In 1884 Duncan was the first to report on acute postoperative acalculous cholecystitis (ref.: 14). Initial publications reported a small number of cases. Literary data have shown a change of the situation for the past few decades /16/. It was most frequently observed following surgical intervention, trauma, delivery or parenteral nutrition /1, 13, 16/. The number of new acalculous cholecystitis cases often requiring surgical intervention and causing death in elderly male patients has increased /5, 16/. Therefore we decided to undertake a clinical study. In Hungary the authors who deal with this theme are: Csengódy /2/, Sándor /17/, Lukács /12/ and Ezer et al. /3/.
Kiss
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2nd Department of Surgery, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
Nagy
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Juhász
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Nagy
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Soós
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged