Laparoscopic, or keyhole, cholecystectomy involves a surgeon making four, small incisions in a person’s abdomen. They insert a camera- and light-mounted tube into these incisions.

For this procedure, the surgeon operates through an incision about four to six inches long in your abdomen. This incision is to remove the gallbladder. For this procedure, patients usually receive ...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive surgery in which the surgeon makes three to four small incisions (cuts) ...

Newer techniques, such as NOTES and SILC, were developed to reduce postoperative pain and improve cosmesis after an LC. In a comparative study by Navarra and colleagues [3] involving 100 patients ...

This technique is less invasive than an open cholecystectomy, which involves making a large incision in the abdomen. Compared with open cholecystectomy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy: reduces pain ...

Compared with 4-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy, single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy may be more stressful and physically demanding to surgeons, which could affect patient outcomes ...

Single-incision laparoscopic and mini-laparoscopic cholecystectomy have failed to gain widespread acceptance because the techniques are more challenging to learn, and the procedures prolong ...

Includes: Cholecystectomy NEC. J18.4 Partial cholecystectomy and exploration of common bile duct. J18.5 Partial cholecystectomy NEC. J18.8 Other specified excision of gall bladder. J18.9 Unspecified ...

In the first description of SILC, Navarra's group operated on 30 patients, and already performed IOC in 8 of them. [1] Ponsky and associates [7] published their experience with single-incision ...