Medical Definition of Acalculous cholecystitis
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5-10% of acute cholecystitis aetiology: depressed motility and starvation: trauma, burns, surgery, TPN, anaesthesia, narcotics, decreased blood flow through cystic artery: congestive heart failure, arteriosclerosis, polyarteritis nodosa, systemic lupus erythematosus, diabetes, shock, obstruction of cystic duct by extrinsic inflammation, lymphadenopathy, metastases, infection: Salmonella, cholera, Kawasaki syndrome
(12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acalculous Cholecystitis
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