Predictive factors of morbidity after surgical treatment of hydatid cyst of the liver.

Background And Study Aims: Hepatic hydatid cyst is a major health problem in endemic areas. Surgery is still the best choice for treatment of the hydatid cyst of the liver. However, it is still associated with high mortality and morbidity.

[Transcystique drainage after laparoscopic exploration of common bile duct: an efficient and safe method].

Background: laparoscopic exploration is one of the modalities of treatment of choledocolithiasis. Modalities of biliary decompression after laparoscopic common bile duct exploration are controversial.

Aim: to assess the benefits, the efficacity and harms of trancystic biliary drainage following laparoscopic common bile duct stone exploration methods: we report retrospectively twenty patients which were operated in our department by laparoscopy and have done a transcystic biliary drainage.