Surgical management of acute cholecystitis in patients 65 years of age and older.

F. Glenn

DOI:10.1097/00000658-198101000-00009

Corpus ID: 25913986

Surgical management of acute cholecystitis in patients 65 years of age and older.

@article{Glenn1981SurgicalMO,
  title={Surgical management of acute cholecystitis in patients 65 years of age and older.},
  author={F. Glenn},
  journal={Annals of surgery},
  year={1981},
  volume={193 1},
  pages={
          56-9
        }
}

F. Glenn

Published 1981

Medicine

Annals of surgery

The proportion of the population of the U.S. 65 years of age and over is increasing. Biliary tract disease is estimated to involve 15% of the adult population. A review of 12,200 patients treated surgically at one medical center reveals that 2401 (20%) had acute cholecystitis. There were 93 deaths, for a mortality rate of 3.8%. Sixty-five of the 93 deaths, for a mortality rate of 3.8%. Sixty-five of the 93 deaths occurred in 665 patients 65 years of age and older, for a mortality rate of 9.8… CONTINUE READING

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