 Cholecystitis
"Cholecystitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Inflammation of the GALLBLADDER; generally caused by impairment of BILE flow, GALLSTONES in the BILIARY TRACT, infections, or other diseases.
| Descriptor ID |
D002764
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C06.130.564.263
|
| Concept/Terms |
Cholecystitis- Cholecystitis
- Gallbladder Inflammation
- Inflammation, Gallbladder
Empyema, Gallbladder- Empyema, Gallbladder
- Gallbladder Empyema
- Empyema, Gall Bladder
- Gall Bladder Empyema
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cholecystitis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cholecystitis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cholecystitis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cholecystitis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Cholecystitis" by people in Profiles.
-
Chandra S, Friesen C, Attard TM. Trends in the epidemiology of pediatric acute and chronic cholecystitis-related admissions in the USA: a nationwide emergency department and inpatient sample study. J Investig Med. 2019 12; 67(8):1155-1159.
-
Downing SR, Datoo G, Oyetunji TA, Fullum T, Chang DC, Ahuja N. Asian race/ethnicity as a risk factor for bile duct injury during cholecystectomy. Arch Surg. 2010 Aug; 145(8):785-7.
-
St Peter SD, Keckler SJ, Nair A, Andrews WS, Sharp RJ, Snyder CL, Ostlie DJ, Holcomb GW. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the pediatric population. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2008 Feb; 18(1):127-30.
-
St Peter SD, Heppell J. Surgical images: soft tissue. Incarcerated gallbladder in a parastomal hernia. Can J Surg. 2005 Feb; 48(1):46.
-
Holzman MD, Sharp K, Holcomb GW, Frexes-Steed M, Richards WO. An alternative technique for laparoscopic cholangiography. Surg Endosc. 1994 Aug; 8(8):927-30.
-
Holcomb GW, Sharp KW, Neblett WW, Morgan WM, Pietsch JB. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in infants and children: modifications and cost analysis. J Pediatr Surg. 1994 Jul; 29(7):900-4.
-
Holcomb GW, O'Neill JA, Holcomb GW. Cholecystitis, cholelithiasis and common duct stenosis in children and adolescents. Ann Surg. 1980 May; 191(5):626-35.
-
Kirtley JA, Holcomb GW. Surgical management of diseases of the gallbladder and common duct in children and adolescents. Am J Surg. 1966 Jan; 111(1):39-46.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|