title: Management of acute biliary disease.
abstract: Acute biliary disease is the commonest general surgical reason for urgent admission to hospital in the over-65 age group. With an ever-increasing elderly population to treat, cholelithiasis and its complications will continue to present both surgeons and physicians with difficult decisions regarding its proper management.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000209:etiology; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000209:etiology; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged