[Management of patients with iatrogenic bile duct injury].

Objectives: The aim of this study is to present an analysis of 30 patients with major bile duct injuries in a single hospital centre.

Material And Method: From January 2001 to December 2006, a prospective database was kept of all patients with a bile duct injury (BDI) following laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Patients' charts were reviewed to analyse perioperative surgical management.

Intra-abdominal adhesions after open and laparoscopic cholecystectomy: an experimental model.

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of intra-abdominal adherences after open and laparoscopic cholecystectomy, on the basis of an experimental study in pigs.

Materials And Methods: A total of 40 female pigs, mean weight 25 kg, underwent open cholecystectomy by right subcostal laparotomy (group A, n = 22) or laparoscopic cholecystectomy using a Storz laparoscope (group B, n = 18). After surgery, the abdominal wall was closed with polydioxanone suture and staples (group A) or with staples only (group B).

Wound erysipelas following appendectomy caused by group B beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae).

Background: Case description of a patient who developed erysipelas of the surgical wound following appendectomy for acute appendicitis, and literature review of invasive group B streptococcal infections.

Methods: A 65-year-old man with perforated appendicitis underwent urgent appendectomy and drainage. Antibiotic prophylaxis with tobramycin (100 mg) and metronidazole (500 mg) was administered.

[Ureteral implantation in peritoneum. Exceptional complication in renal transplantation].

Because of the extraperitoneal location, generally used for renal grafting, intraperitoneal urine leaks are a rare complication after transplantation. We report a patient on peritoneal dialysis who developed ascites, abdominal pain, anuria and shock suddenly after renal transplantation. The patient was immediately taken back to the operating room.