Clinical and treatment characteristics of acute cholecystitis in the middle-aged and elderly
Zakharov, S.N.; Svitich, I.M.; Baskakov, V.A.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 128(6): 16-20
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 6214884 Document Number: 191124
The clinical picture of acute cholecystitis was analyzed in 221 patients. The authors have studied symptoms of the disease in patients older than 60 such as rapid beginning of the disease, early signs of intoxication and peritonitis. They all made the diagnostics difficult. Urgent operations should be recommended in elderly and senile patients more often due to greater probability of destructive forms of cholecystitis in such patients.