title: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy after open cholecystostomy for gallbladder empyema: a case report.
abstract: The case of a patient with gallbladder empyema initially drained through a minilaparotomy procedure under local anesthesia with a tube cholecystostomy is reported in this paper. Eight weeks later, the patient underwent an elective interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy. At laparoscopy, the gallbladder and the cholecystostomy tube were dissected free from the abdominal wall and the greater omentum, which was attached to the gallbladder. The tube was removed from the gallbladder fundus, and the operation was completed laparoscopically without any major problems.
authors: 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. misiakos@med.uoa.gr
authors: Evangelos P
authors: EP
authors: Misiakos
authors: Gabriel
authors: G
authors: Karatzas
authors: Anastasios
authors: A
authors: Macheras
authors: Dimitrios
authors: D
authors: Bistarakis
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Kakisis
authors: Elias N
authors: EN
authors: Brountzos
authors: Theodore
authors: T
authors: Liakakos
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000379:methods*; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002767:Cholecystostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012086:Reoperation