Key result
Review compiles abstracts detailing the management of various acute emergency general surgery conditions.
Why the study?
General surgeons managing emergency surgical patients require comprehensive knowledge to identify and manage common and rare presentations of acute biliary disease.
This article provides a review of the workup, diagnosis, and management of acute biliary disease for general surgeons.
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Abstracts on emergency general surgery warrant cautious interpretation; leaves open prospective validation of management strategies.
Acute biliary disease is a ubiquitous acute surgical complaint.General surgeons managing emergency surgical patients must be knowledge able and capable of identifying and caring for common presentations.This article discusses the workup, diagnosis, and management of the varying pathologies that make up biliary disease, including cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, biliary dyskinesia, choledocholithiasis, cholangitis, gall stone pancreatitis, and gallstone ileus.Also addressed are more chal lenging and rare presentations, including pregnancy and bariatric anatomy.
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Schenarts et al. (2018) conducted a review in Emergency General Surgery. This document is a table of contents and collection of abstracts for a publication on emergency general surgery, covering various acute surgical conditions and their management.
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