Understanding the reasons for the refusal of cholecystectomy in patients with cholelithiasis: how to help them in their decision?
BACKGROUND: Cholelithiasis is prevalent surgical disease, with approximately 60,000 admissions per year in the Unified Health System in Brazil. Is often asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic and major complications arise from the migration of calculi to low biliary tract. Despite these complications are...
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| Language: | English |
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Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgia Digestiva
2014-06-01
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| Series: | ABCD: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-67202014000200114&tlng=en |