Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Acute Cholecystitis: A Contemporary Review
Edgardo Picardi, Valeria Valli, Gioia Pozza, and Cosimo Sperti (Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Chapter 2. Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis
María Cristina Nevado García, Jaime Ruiz-Tovar Polo, David Alias Jiménez, Pedro Yuste, and Eduardo Ferrero Herrero (General surgery, Madrid, Spain)
Chapter 3. Diagnostic Work-Up of Patients with Acute Cholecystitis
Andrei M. Beliaev, Colleen Bergin, Neville Angelo, and Michael Booth (Green Lane Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Auckland City Hospital, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand, and others)
Chapter 4. Treatment for Acute Cholecystitis: Early and Delayed Cholecystectomy
Miguel Sánchez-Carrasco, Francisco Javier Sánchez-Manuel, Adel Eldabe, Fernando Martín-Acebes, Federico Castillo-Suescun, and Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Sanjuán (Department of Surgery, Burgos University Hospital, Burgos, Spain, and others)
Chapter 5. Tokyo Guidelines Grade II (Moderate) Acute Cholecystitis: A Management Dilemma?
Mary Caroline Nally, Benjamin R. Veenstra and Jose M. Velasco (Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA)
Chapter 6. Cholecystitis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Thouraya Ben Salem and Imed Ben Ghorbel (Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta University Hopital Tunis, Tunisia, and others)
Index