New trends in gallstone management
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 78 (2) , 143-149
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800780206
Abstract
Many new therapies for the management of gallstone disease have been pioneered in the past decade. The object of this review is to equip the surgeon with the answers to all of the questions a patient will ask about gallstone therapy; the review is therefore didactic as well as comprehensive.Keywords
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