wound infection, bile duct injury, or bile leak) occur in about 2% of cases. If patients who have undergone empiric cholecystectomy suffer another episode of IAP, more invasive diagnostic testing ...

Purpose Evidence from previous studies on the association between cholecystectomy and risk of gastric cancer are still inconsistent. We aimed at conducting a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies ...

Introduction 15% of the UK adult population have gallstones. In those with symptomatic gallstone disease, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the gold standard management. 1 There continues to be debate ...

A cholecystectomy, or the surgical removal ... gallbladder inflammation, and gallbladder infections. Surgical removal of the gallbladder can help improve symptoms, but your provider will only ...

Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...

Introduction Cholecystectomy is one of the most common operations performed worldwide. Although laparoscopic surgery has been the ‘gold-standard’ approach for this operation, there is a paucity of ...

Objective Following an episode of acute biliary pancreatitis, cholecystectomy is advised to prevent recurrent biliary events. There is limited evidence regarding the optimal timing and safety of ...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was successfully performed on the child, with no postoperative complications. For children with chronic cholecystitis associated with incomplete GT, clinical ...