Pediatric general surgeon Clint Cappiello and pediatric gastroenterologist Kenneth Ng discuss the ERCP/ laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedure at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In this video, they ...

6–8 With respect to short-term complications, recent meta-analysis reveals that open subtotal cholecystectomy carries a higher risk of subhepatic collections (laparoscopic vs open, OR 0.4; 95% CI 0.2 ...

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 ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2014) is recommending that patients with acute cholecystitis should have a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC ... The number of subtotal ...

Abstract: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is used to treat cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. Because the high risk of the surgery prevents novice doctors from practicing it on real patients, VR-based ...

Attempted minimally invasive (robotic/laparoscopic) cholecystectomy by general surgeons ... attributed to indwelling LAMS that necessitated conversion to open or subtotal cholecystectomy (figure 1) ...

His medical history includes a delayed presentation of empyema of the gallbladder requiring percutaneous cholecystostomy tube and interval laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy in 2017. He presented a ...