[Cholelithiasis in advanced age].
Fifty seven patients over 65 affected with cholelithiasis underwent surgical procedures at II Patologia Chirurgica-University of Bari-Italy, from July 1987 to December 1988. Different risk factors were considered. The results, which reported a low incidence of morbidity and mortality, suggest the importance to adopt early surgery. Though 73.2% of patients had associated pathologies and 28.6% had two or more risk factors, only 5.3% of them had complications not strictly related to surgery.
Testini
M
M
Gentile
A
A
Greco
L
L
Lospalluti
M
M
Caputi Iambrenghi
O
O
Carrata
R
R
Paccione
F
F
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications
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