[Outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Experience with the first 300 operations].

Introduction: In Denmark, outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been evaluated only in small studies.

Materials And Methods: The first 300 consecutive patients undergoing LC in a university hospital outpatient clinic were evaluated prospectively. Complications, lack of same-day discharge (SDD), postoperative symptoms, and possibilities for training were recorded.

[What is gallstone pain?].

This paper reviews our current understanding of the clinical symptoms and pain mechanisms in patients with gallstone disease. Although most patients have classical pain attacks, the pain localisation can be atypical due to convergence phenomena between somatic and visceral afferents. Furthermore, central neuroplastic changes induced by the recurrent pain attacks are probably of major importance for our understanding of the clinical symptoms.