. Southern medicine and surgery [serial]. JOIN. Surgery in Gallbladder Disease(L. Grove & J. C. Read, Atlanta, in Jl. Med. Assn. of Ga.) Acute cholecystitis with or without stones, fortunatelygives rise to little discussion. The only issue is one ofjudgment as to when operation should be done and whattype of operation. We do not operate in all cases of acutecholecystitis. Here usually cholecystostomy is the operationof safety and in a high percentage the patient must returnfor a cholecystectomy. Judd has reviewed a series of casesin which cholecystostomy was done and found 17% sufferedsubseque
. Southern medicine and surgery [serial]. JOIN. Surgery in Gallbladder Disease(L. Grove & J. C. Read, Atlanta, in Jl. Med. Assn. of Ga.) Acute cholecystitis with or without stones, fortunatelygives rise to little discussion. The only issue is one ofjudgment as to when operation should be done and whattype of operation. We do not operate in all cases of acutecholecystitis. Here usually cholecystostomy is the operationof safety and in a high percentage the patient must returnfor a cholecystectomy. Judd has reviewed a series of casesin which cholecystostomy was done and found 17% sufferedsubsequent trouble requiring cholecystectomy. With carefulwatching many cases can be carried safely through an acuteattack ,and cholecystectomy can usually be done safelylater. A certain number must of necessity have cholecystos-tomy if we are to avoid the small group resulting in per-foration and peritonitis. It is in cholecystitis without stones that correct diagnosisand treatment are difficult. In these cases the most prom-inent symptom is dysp
Size: 2362px × 1058px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectmedicine, bookyear192
