Published in Ann Surg on February 01, 1998
Preoperative prediction of difficult lap chole: a scoring method. Indian J Surg (2009) 1.74
Male gender is not a risk factor for the outcome of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a single surgeon experience. Saudi J Gastroenterol (2008) 1.51
Male gender: risk factor for severe symptomatic cholelithiasis. World J Surg (2002) 1.18
Sex as a factor in conversion from laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open surgery. JSLS (2007) 1.04
A comprehensive predictive scoring method for difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy. J Minim Access Surg (2014) 1.00
PREOP-Gallstones: A Prognostic Nomogram for the Management of Symptomatic Cholelithiasis in Older Patients. Ann Surg (2015) 0.97
Identification of risk factors for an unfavorable laparoscopic cholecystectomy course after endoscopic retrograde cholangiography in the treatment of choledocholithiasis. Surg Endosc (2009) 0.92
Sex differences in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc (2010) 0.90
Impact of treatment policies on patient outcomes and resource utilization in acute cholecystitis in Japanese hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res (2006) 0.90
Alcohol Consumption as a Risk Factor for Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and a Series of Meta-analyses. EBioMedicine (2015) 0.87
Predicting conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. JSLS (1999) 0.87
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis: indication, technique, risk and outcome. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2004) 0.86
Outcome of laparoscopic cholecystectomy conversion: is the surgeon's selection needed? Surg Endosc (2012) 0.85
A strategy for statistical Master Person Index linking. Proc AMIA Symp (1999) 0.84
Effects of gender on severity, management and outcome in acute biliary pancreatitis. PLoS One (2013) 0.83
Does estrogen cause low conversion rates in laparoscopic cholecystectomies for acute and chronic cholecystitis in women? JSLS (2001) 0.82
Gastrointestinal quality-of-life after cholecystectomy: indication predicts gastrointestinal symptoms and abdominal pain. World J Surg (2014) 0.79
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with empyematous cholecystitis: an outcome analysis. Indian J Surg (2009) 0.75
Connecticut RxData project. Proc AMIA Symp (2002) 0.75
Does the Difficulty of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Differ Between Genders? Indian J Surg (2013) 0.75
The use of patient factors to improve the prediction of operative duration using laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc (2016) 0.75
Treatment of gallbladder disease during operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. Surg Endosc (2009) 0.75
The economic costs of illness: a replication and update. Health Care Financ Rev (1985) 4.23
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A statewide experience. The Connecticut Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Registry. Arch Surg (1993) 2.16
Factors determining conversion to laparotomy in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Am J Surg (1994) 2.16
Bile duct injuries, 1989-1993. A statewide experience. Connecticut Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Registry. Arch Surg (1996) 2.03
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis. What is the optimal timing for operation? Arch Surg (1996) 1.81
Acute cholecystitis in the elderly: a surgical emergency. Arch Surg (1978) 1.39
Cholecystectomy in the aged. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1968) 1.29
Risk factors in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for conversion to open cholecystectomy. J Am Coll Surg (1994) 1.18
Comparison of mortality rates for open and closed cholecystectomy in the elderly: Connecticut statewide survey. J Laparoendosc Surg (1994) 1.15
Prognosis of gallstones with mild or no symptoms: 25 years of follow-up in a health maintenance organization. J Clin Epidemiol (1989) 1.14
Cholecystectomy in the elderly. Am J Surg (1988) 1.13
Biliary tract surgery in the aged patient. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1953) 1.12
Acute cholecystitis. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1975) 1.08
Gallbladder disease in the aged. J Am Med Assoc (1956) 1.06
Developing trends in acute cholecystitis and choledocholithiasis. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1980) 1.02
Cholecystectomy in the aged. Ann Surg (1971) 0.97
Gangrenous cholecystitis in an urban VA hospital. J Surg Res (1994) 0.96
Early cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. Can Med Assoc J (1974) 0.95
Age as a factor in the mortality rate for biliary-tract operations. J Am Geriatr Soc (1963) 0.81
Surgical therapy for gallstone disease. Gastroenterol Clin North Am (1991) 0.81
STUDIES ON EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION : I. THE PRODUCTION OF PERSISTENT ELEVATION OF SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE BY MEANS OF RENAL ISCHEMIA. J Exp Med (1934) 14.72
Life course epidemiology. J Epidemiol Community Health (2003) 6.75
Familial breast-ovarian cancer locus on chromosome 17q12-q23. Lancet (1991) 6.61
BRCA1 testing in families with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer. A prospective study of patient decision making and outcomes. JAMA (1996) 5.95
Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration. BMJ (1999) 3.98
Comparison of fixed-flexion positioning with fluoroscopic semi-flexed positioning for quantifying radiographic joint-space width in the knee: test-retest reproducibility. Skeletal Radiol (2003) 3.93
ATS/ERS/WASOG statement on sarcoidosis. American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society/World Association of Sarcoidosis and other Granulomatous Disorders. Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis (1999) 3.69
Utility of a lung biopsy for the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2001) 3.69
Income inequality, social cohesion, and class relations: a critique of Wilkinson's neo-Durkheimian research program. Int J Health Serv (1999) 3.06
A working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature and for clinical staging of chronic dysfunction in lung allografts. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant (1993) 2.69
Validation of World Health Organization Guidelines for cancer pain relief: a 10-year prospective study. Pain (1995) 2.69
Health inequalities and social inequalities in health. Bull World Health Organ (2000) 2.64
Improvement in sodium cromoglycate delivery from a spacer device by use of an antistatic lining, immediate inhalation, and avoiding multiple actuations of drug. Thorax (1993) 2.62
Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (AFAP). A phenotypically and genotypically distinctive variant of FAP. Cancer (1995) 2.53
Breast cancer family history as a risk factor for early onset breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat (1988) 2.51
Five-year analysis of protective isolation. Lancet (1971) 2.31
Hepatitis B vaccine responsiveness in Connecticut public safety personnel. JAMA (1994) 2.28
Effect of phosphorus deficiency on growth angle of basal roots in Phaseolus vulgaris. New Phytol (1996) 2.28
Epithelial wound healing enhanced by transforming growth factor-alpha and vaccinia growth factor. Science (1987) 2.24
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A statewide experience. The Connecticut Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Registry. Arch Surg (1993) 2.16
Bile duct injuries, 1989-1993. A statewide experience. Connecticut Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Registry. Arch Surg (1996) 2.03
Social inequality in health, responsibility and egalitarian justice. J Public Health (Oxf) (2013) 2.02
Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study. Int J Epidemiol (2001) 1.94
Relationship between premature mortality and socioeconomic factors in black and white populations of US metropolitan areas. Public Health Rep (2002) 1.91
Benzene in the workplace. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J (1980) 1.88
Education and the metabolic syndrome in women. Diabetes Care (1999) 1.83
Soluble adhesion molecules (E-selectin, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1) in breast carcinoma. Eur J Cancer (2002) 1.79
Synthesis of a muscarinic receptor antagonist via a diastereoselective Michael reaction, selective deoxyfluorination and aromatic metal-halogen exchange reaction. J Org Chem (2001) 1.75
Lynch syndrome: genetics, natural history, genetic counseling, and prevention. J Clin Oncol (2000) 1.74
Influx of na, k, and ca into roots of salt-stressed cotton seedlings : effects of supplemental ca. Plant Physiol (1987) 1.72
Increased risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus at low plasma vitamin E concentrations: a four year follow up study in men. BMJ (1995) 1.70
A breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility gene maps to chromosome 17q21. Am J Hum Genet (1993) 1.66
A follow-up study of colonic epithelial proliferation as a biomarker ina Native-American family with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst (1991) 1.57
Functional specialization of calreticulin domains. J Cell Biol (2001) 1.57
An update of HNPCC (Lynch syndrome). Cancer Genet Cytogenet (1997) 1.55
Strain magnitude related changes in whole bone architecture in growing rats. Bone (1997) 1.53
Mutational analysis of the repeated open reading frames, ORFs 63 and 70 and ORFs 64 and 69, of varicella-zoster virus. J Virol (2001) 1.53
Predictors of disability retirement. Scand J Work Environ Health (1997) 1.52
Cumulative incidence of colorectal and extracolonic cancers in MLH1 and MSH2 mutation carriers of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. J Gastrointest Surg (1999) 1.51
Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Thorax (1971) 1.51
Subject loss in spatial analysis of breast cancer. Health Place (1999) 1.51
Glutamine administration reduces Gram-negative bacteremia in severely burned patients: a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial versus isonitrogenous control. Crit Care Med (2001) 1.50
Social capital, disorganized communities, and the third way: understanding the retreat from structural inequalities in epidemiology and public health. Int J Health Serv (2001) 1.48
ST elevation on the exercise ECG in patients presenting with chest pain and no prior history of myocardial infarction. Heart (2009) 1.46
Myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteriography: a 10 year clinical and risk analysis of 74 patients. J Am Coll Cardiol (1988) 1.45
The relation between socioeconomic and demographic factors and tumour stage in women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark, 1983-1999. Br J Cancer (2006) 1.43
Socioeconomic position, macroeconomic environment and overweight among adolescents in 35 countries. Int J Obes (Lond) (2009) 1.42
Biphasic energy selection for transthoracic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. The BEST AF Trial. Heart (2007) 1.42
Subjects with higher physical activity levels have more severe focal knee lesions diagnosed with 3T MRI: analysis of a non-symptomatic cohort of the osteoarthritis initiative. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2010) 1.42
HLA-A locus mismatches and development of antibodies to HLA after lung transplantation correlate with the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. Transplantation (1998) 1.41
Lipoprotein(a) and apolipoproteins B and A-1 in children and coronary vascular events in their grandparents. J Pediatr (1993) 1.40
Racial differences in testing motivation and psychological distress following pretest education for BRCA1 gene testing. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (1999) 1.40
Effects of socioeconomic change from birth to early adulthood on height and overweight. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 1.39
Varicella-zoster virus ORF47 protein serine kinase: characterization of a cloned, biologically active phosphotransferase and two viral substrates, ORF62 and ORF63. J Virol (2001) 1.37
Distances between 3' ends of ribosomal ribonucleic acids reassembled into Escherichia coli ribosomes. Biochemistry (1980) 1.36
Male breast cancer in the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome. Breast Cancer Res Treat (1999) 1.35
Endochitinase is transported to the extracellular milieu by the eps-encoded general secretory pathway of Vibrio cholerae. J Bacteriol (1998) 1.34
Family studies of malignant melanoma and associated cancer. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1975) 1.34
Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice. Demography (1997) 1.30
West Nile virus serosurvey and assessment of personal prevention efforts in an area with intense epizootic activity: Connecticut, 2000. Ann N Y Acad Sci (2001) 1.30
The effects of occupation-based social position on mortality in a large American cohort. Am J Public Health (1997) 1.29
Laboratory and clinical evaluation of isolation media for Campylobacter jejuni. J Clin Microbiol (1987) 1.28
Socioeconomic health inequalities among a nationally representative sample of Danish adolescents: the role of different types of social relations. J Epidemiol Community Health (2003) 1.28
Cartilage loss occurs in the same subregions as subchondral bone attrition: a within-knee subregion-matched approach from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 1.28
Hereditary flat adenoma syndrome: a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis? Dis Colon Rectum (1992) 1.24
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndromes I & II). Genetics, pathology, natural history, and cancer control, Part I. Cancer Genet Cytogenet (1991) 1.21
Influx and efflux of p in roots of intact maize plants : double-labeling with p and p. Plant Physiol (1984) 1.20
Does measurement of the anatomic axis consistently predict hip-knee-ankle angle (HKA) for knee alignment studies in osteoarthritis? Analysis of long limb radiographs from the multicenter osteoarthritis (MOST) study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2010) 1.17
Obesity increases the prevalence and severity of focal knee abnormalities diagnosed using 3T MRI in middle-aged subjects--data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Skeletal Radiol (2011) 1.17
Genetics and ovarian carcinoma. Semin Oncol (1998) 1.17
The social class determinants of income inequality and social cohesion. Int J Health Serv (1999) 1.16
Comparison of BLOKS and WORMS scoring systems part II. Longitudinal assessment of knee MRIs for osteoarthritis and suggested approach based on their performance: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2010) 1.16
Cancer of the colon: socioeconomic variables in a community. Am J Epidemiol (1975) 1.16
Comparison of mortality rates for open and closed cholecystectomy in the elderly: Connecticut statewide survey. J Laparoendosc Surg (1994) 1.15
Quantitative measures of air-gun pulses recorded on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) using acoustic tags during controlled exposure experiments. J Acoust Soc Am (2006) 1.13
An update on DNA-based BRCA1/BRCA2 genetic counseling in hereditary breast cancer. Cancer Genet Cytogenet (1999) 1.12
Differential allelic expression of a fibrillin gene (FBN1) in patients with Marfan syndrome. Am J Hum Genet (1994) 1.12
Hereditary cancer in adults. Cancer Detect Prev (1995) 1.11
Postoperative analgesia with no motor block by continuous epidural infusion of ropivacaine 0.1% and sufentanil after total hip replacement. Anesth Analg (1999) 1.11
MicroRNA-204 increases sensitivity of neuroblastoma cells to cisplatin and is associated with a favourable clinical outcome. Br J Cancer (2012) 1.11
Strong association of MRI meniscal derangement and bone marrow lesions in knee osteoarthritis: data from the osteoarthritis initiative. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2008) 1.09
Expression of a Trk high affinity nerve growth factor receptor in the human prostate. Endocrinology (1995) 1.09
Use of doxorubicin and dacarbazine for the management of unresectable intra-abdominal desmoid tumors in Gardner's syndrome. Dis Colon Rectum (1994) 1.09
Vastus lateralis/vastus medialis cross-sectional area ratio impacts presence and degree of knee joint abnormalities and cartilage T2 determined with 3T MRI - an analysis from the incidence cohort of the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2010) 1.08
Cholera in Louisiana. Widening spectrum of seafood vehicles. Arch Intern Med (1989) 1.07
Fluconazole vs low-dose amphotericin B for the prevention of fungal infections in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation: a study of the North American Marrow Transplant Group. Bone Marrow Transplant (2000) 1.05
Paravertebral malignant rhabdoid tumor in infancy. In vitro studies of a familial tumor. Cancer (1983) 1.05
Modulation of neuroblastoma disease pathogenesis by an extensive network of epigenetically regulated microRNAs. Oncogene (2012) 1.05
Effects of high-intensity resistance training on untrained older men. I. Strength, cardiovascular, and metabolic responses. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2000) 1.04
Changes in size of melanocytic nevi during pregnancy. J Am Acad Dermatol (1997) 1.03
Validation of World Health Organization guidelines for cancer pain relief during the last days and hours of life. J Pain Symptom Manage (1991) 1.03
Temporal relationship between the development of anti-HLA antibodies and the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation. Transplant Proc (1999) 1.00
Design and use of plastic tents for isolation of patients prone to infection. Lancet (1968) 1.00
Molecular cloning and amino acid sequence of brain L-glutamate decarboxylase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1990) 0.99
Transdermal fentanyl and initial dose-finding with patient-controlled analgesia in cancer pain. A pilot study with 20 terminally ill cancer patients. Pain (1992) 0.99
Biomarkers for assessing occupational exposures to 1,3-butadiene. Chem Biol Interact (2001) 0.98
Genomic sequencing of DPC4 in the analysis of familial pancreatic carcinoma. Diagn Mol Pathol (1997) 0.98
Weekly docetaxel and estramustine in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Semin Oncol (2001) 0.97