Increasing gallstone prevalence and cholecystectomy rate in a large Romanian town
| Autor: | Monica Acalovschi, Corneliu Dorin Olinici, Andrei Ban, Silviu Iobagiu, Maria Pascu, Dumitru Dumitrascu, Magda Petrescu |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Physiology medicine.medical_treatment Autopsy Gastroenterology Sex Factors Transplant surgery Cholelithiasis Sex factors Internal medicine Epidemiology Prevalence medicine Humans Cholecystectomy Aged Aged 80 and over Romania Obstetrics business.industry Gallbladder Age Factors Middle Aged Hepatology medicine.anatomical_structure Female business Biliary tract disease |
| Zdroj: | Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 40:2582-2586 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2568 0163-2116 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02220445 |
| Popis: | To study whether the increasing prevalence of gallstone disease noted in a 100-year interval in a large Romanian town has continued in recent years, we analyzed all necropsies (5234) performed during 10 years (1983–1992) in Cluj-Napoca. Gallstone disease (GD) was defined as the presence of stones or the absence of the gallbladder due to cholecystectomy. The results obtained were compared to those of the previous 10-year period (1973–1982). We found a significant increase of GD both in men (6.9% to 9.8%) (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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