If you have open surgery, you will probably stay in the hospital for 2 to 4 days. And it may take 4 to 6 weeks to get back to your normal routine. Cholecystectomy is usually laparoscopic surgery. To ...

enabling doctors to visualize and extract stones without the need for open surgery. For symptomatic gallstones, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the most frequently performed surgical treatment.