Background A reliable system for grading operative difficulty of laparoscopic
cholecystectomy would standardise description of findings and reporting of outcomes. The …

Background The prediction of a difficult cholecystectomy has traditionally been based on
certain pre-operative clinical and imaging factors. Most of the previous literature reported …

Background Few studies have used operative time as a reflection of the surgical difficulty to
create a preoperative score of operative difficulty in laparoscopic cholecystectomies (DiLCs …

AIMS: To develop a scoring method that predicts difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Bidirectional prospective study in a medical college setup …

Background Bile duct injury rates for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) remain higher than
during open cholecystectomy. The “culture of safety” concept is based on demonstrating the …

Aim: To propose and validate a novel risk score based on the patient's history, physical
examination and abdominal ultrasonography parameters. Material and methods: The risk …

Background We previously identified 25 intraoperative findings during laparoscopic
cholecystectomy (LC) as potential indicators of surgical difficulty per nominal group …

Introduction Variation in outcomes from surgery is a major challenge and defining surgical
findings may help set benchmarks, which currently do not exist in laparoscopic …

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the procedure of choice for
management of symptomatic gallstone disease. At times, it is difficult and takes longer time …

Background Serious complications continue to occur in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).
The commonly used indicators of surgical difficulty such as the duration of surgery are …