[Cholecystectomy by celioscopy: indications and safety of the method. Apropos of a consecutive series of 300 patients]

Ann Chir. 1992;46(7):610-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 300 patients with gallstone disease complicated or not. The rate success was 97%, however involved the pathology might be. Indeed, 15% of the patients had an acute cholecystitis (10% catarrhalis, 5% empyema). Twenty-four patients with common bile duct stones had a complete endoscopic management of the biliary disease: endoscopic sphincterotomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Operative mortality was absent and overall morbidity was 3.7%, exclusively minor.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / methods*
  • Cholecystitis / etiology
  • Cholelithiasis / complications
  • Cholelithiasis / surgery*
  • Cholestasis / etiology
  • Cholestasis / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic