title: [Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. First year experience at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Nutrition].
abstract: The results at our institution with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in its first year are informed. The patients included in this study were routinely evaluated for an open procedure. The operation was done with the standard technique and equipment. In the postoperative period, ultrasound was done. Seventy-eight patients were included, 63 of them females. Age averaged 49.5 years (range 20-77). In three cases, choledocholithiasis was also demonstrated; these patients were treated with transendoscopic sphincterotomy. In 74 cases only cholelithiasis was demonstrated, two of them with shrinked gallbladder. In one case adenomyosis was found. Sixty-five cases had associated diseases which did not preclude the operation. Six cases were converted to an open cholecystectomy: two because of bleeding, the two cases with shrinked gallbladders, one with intrahepatic gallbladder, and the last one because of a Mirizzi syndrome with bile duct injury. In all cases, the conversion resolved the indication including the Mirizzi syndrome that required biliary reconstruction. No operative mortality was recorded.
  
  
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  wound infection four, wound hematoma one, subhepatic hematoma two, and bile duct injury one.
authors.affiliation: División de Cirugía, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orozco
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mercado
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prado
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000009:adverse effects; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Colecistectomía laparoscópica. Experiencia del primer año en el Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán.