title: Percutaneous cholecystolithotomy: preliminary experience.
abstract: Percutaneous removal of gallstones was employed as the definitive form of therapy in three patients with acute cholecystitis. Percutaneous cholecystolithotomy may be an alternative form of therapy for selected patients with gallbladder calculi.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000150:complications; D002765:Cholecystography; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011677:Punctures