Comparison of early and delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: experience from a single center.

Background: Cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones is mainly performed after the acute cholecystitis episode settles because of the fear of higher morbidity and conversion from laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open cholecystectomy during acute cholecystitis.

Aims: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis and to compare the results with delayed cholecystectomy.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective and randomized study.

Aspiration versus excision: a single center experience of forty-seven patients with brain abscess over 10 years.

The efficacies of two different surgical approaches, aspiration and excision, were investigated for the management of large solitary encapsulated pyogenic brain abscess located in superficial non-eloquent areas, and the impact on length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative antibiotic use, improvement in neurological status, and morbidity and mortality were compared. This retrospective study at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences included 47 patients with pyogenic brain abscess from a total of 114 patients evaluated in the Department of Neurosurgery over a period of 10 years from October 2001 to October 2011. Comparisons were made between aspiration and excision in terms of duration of antibiotic use, length of hospital stay, and overall treatment cost.