A prospective study was conducted from March 1999 to April 2000 that included 73 patients
who underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for uncomplicated gallstone disease …

Hypothesis Analysis of the causes of unanticipated admission after ambulatory laparoscopic
cholecystectomy may permit the identification of predictive clinical factors for postoperative …

Background Percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) is a procedure to
resolve acute cholecystitis (AC). It may decrease the technical difficulty of laparoscopic …

Introduction Difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy (DLC) is a stressful condition for surgeon
which is followed by greater risk for various injuries (biliary, vascular etc.) Preoperative …

A prospective study was carried out to investigate the value of preoperative ultrasound
findings for predicting difficulties encountered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) …

Purpose The aim of this study was to identify and classify the ultrasonographic and
computed tomography (CT) signs of simple and complicated acute cholecystitis and to …

Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of preoperative sonography in
predicting technical difficulties during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with acute …

Background: No papers have heretofore documented histological studies of cases involving
the inflammation of resected gallbladder or examined surgical difficulties on the basis of …

BACKGROUND: Identification of preoperative factors that indicate difficulties in the operation
are in the function of primary prevention of intraoperative complications and require …

Purpose Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the treatment of choice for
cholelithiasis. Still some patients required conversion to open cholecystectomy (OC). Our …