[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases].
From Sept. 1991 through Sept. 1992, 700 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), among them 171 were male and 529 were female with age ranging from 18 to 77, and 238 of them were overweighed. There were 35 cases of gallbladder polypi, 657, chronic calculous cholecystitis, 8 acute cholecystitis, with 13 cases having had previous upper abdominal surgeries. Intraoperative transcystic duct cholangiography were carried out in 10 cases and choledocholithiasis was confirmed in 5 of them. Exploring the CBD laparoscopically was done in 2.14 cases were converted to open surgery (2.6%). Twenty-five patients had postoperative complications including injuries to the extrahepatic bile duct and bleeding requiring laparotomic hemostasis in 3 and 2, respectively, with 1 patient dying of cardiac arrhythmia.
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Kunming General Hospital, Chengdu Military Unit.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic / Q000293:injuries; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011127:Polyps / Q000601:surgery