title: Use of fistula director to enlarge the port site opening to retrieve a stone packed bulky gall bladder during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a simple and safe technique.
abstract: Retrieval of the gall bladder through the port site opening is technically difficult and challenging when it is bulky either due to packed multiple calculi or a large solitary calculus. We describe in this article a simple technique that involves enlargement of the port site opening to facilitate the gall bladder removal in these difficult situations, using a scalpel and a fistula grooved director.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, South Tyneside NHS Healthcare, South Shields, U.K. viswa1@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Viswanath
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Wynne
mesh_terms: D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments