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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) were utilized to confirm the diagnosis in the child. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was successfully performed on the child, with ...