Risk Predictive Factors to Convert Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy into Other Procedures
Open Access
- 20 February 2019
- journal article
- Published by Lupine Publishers LLC in Current Trends in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Vol. 2 (1) , 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.32474/ctgh.2019.02.000128
Abstract
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is nowadays the procedure of choice for cholecystitis. The intraoperative finding can make this procedure quite tricky such as dense adhesions at calot’s triangle, fibrotic and contracted gallbladder, acutely inflamed or gangrenous gallbladder, cholcystoenteric fistula, etc. There are also risk factors which make laparoscopic surgery difficult like old age, male sex, obesity, previous abdominal surgery, thickened gallbladder wall, distended gallbladder, pericholecystic fluid collection, impacted stone, etc.Keywords
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