[Intraoperative events unexpected and conversion in patients laparoscopic cholecystectomy: male and independent risk factor].

Background: Studies have been done trying to confirm the impression that laparascopic cholecystecotmy tends to be more complicacted and takes longer in men than in women. The analysis of sex as an independent risk factor has been done in various studies with mixed results.

Aims: To assess if male gender is an independent risk factor for unexpected intraoperative events, conversion and longer operating time in a restrospective cohort based on a population of 1029 patients from one surgeon in a national hospital in Lima, from 1996 to 2010.