Despite growing experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in up to now 1100 operations lesions of the bile ducts sometimes occur. We therefore decided to perform intraoperative cholangiography obligatorily and increased our rate of intraoperative X-ray control from 30% in the first 500 operations to 98.2% in the last 500 operations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report about a retrospective study of 861 conventional and 812 laparoscopic cholecystectomies (including one coelioscopic choledocholithotomy). In the conventionally operated group reoperation was required in 2.7% (1.
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