title: [Radiological diagnosis before and after laparoscopic cholecystectomies].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the diagnostic value of radiological imaging modalities in patients undergoing endoscopic cholecystectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 286 patients with endoscopic cholecystectomy ultrasound and intravenous cholecystography was performed for preoperative work-up. Postoperatively all patients were examined with ultrasound.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ERCP showed a stone in the common bile duct in 12 patients with suspected stones on ultrasound, cholecystography or laboratory values. All 12 patients were treated with papillotomy. Postoperative ultrasound detected increasing fluid in the peritoneal cavity in three patients. Laparotomy of one patient showed bleeding from the cystic artery, in the second patient, injury of the right bile duct. One patient showed an accessory hepatic duct, another patient demonstrated pancreatitis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ultrasound and intravenous cholecystography are suitable for preoperative imaging. Postoperative ultrasound is useful in detecting complications.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Radiologische Diagnostik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schnarkowski
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Decker
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Decker
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kreft
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirner
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Reiser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D002765:Cholecystography; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography