[Video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy: first years of experience]

Ann Ital Chir. 1995 Jan-Feb;66(1):103-6; discussion 106-7.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is became the elective operation in the treatment of symptomatic lithiasis of gallbladder, and it represent the surgical choice in 96% of cases. The authors on the base of their first years experience analyzes the results of literature with particular reference to the complications, like lesion of principal biliary tract and of other organs or vessels, underlining how the right selection of patients can be reduce morbidity. In this direction the subdivision of contraindication, in relative and absolute, already described in literature, represent an obliged chose to respect the mini-invasive principle which laparoscopic technique mean.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic* / adverse effects
  • Cholelithiasis / surgery
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Video Recording