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Angus C.W. Chan

Publications -  10
Citations -  2852

Angus C.W. Chan is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cholecystitis & Medical history. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 10 publications receiving 1856 citations.

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Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos).

Masamichi Yokoe, +59 more
TL;DR: Thorough literature search about diagnostic criteria for acute cholecystitis, new and strong evidence that had been released from 2013 to 2017 was not found with serious and important issues about using TG13 diagnostic criteria of acute CholecyStitis, and the TG13 severity grading has been validated in numerous studies.
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Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis.

Kohji Okamoto, +58 more
TL;DR: In the Tokyo Guidelines 2018 (TG18) as discussed by the authors, the authors proposed a flowchart for the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) in advanced centers with specialized surgeons experienced in this procedure.
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Tokyo Guidelines 2018 surgical management of acute cholecystitis: safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (with videos)

TL;DR: It is absolutely necessary to avoid any increase in bile duct injury (BDI), particularly vasculo‐biliary injury (VBI), which is known to occur at a certain rate in LC.
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TG13 guidelines for diagnosis and severity grading of acute cholangitis (with videos)

TL;DR: The severity assessment criteria of TG13 have been revised so as not to lose the timing of biliary drainage or treatment for etiology, and the diagnostic criteria of the updated Tokyo Guidelines have high sensitivity and specificity.