Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is generally safe for most people, though it does have a risk of complications. Usually, a person can go home on the same day as the procedure.

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Of note, the use of intraoperative cholangiogram was significantly higher in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy compared with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy (0.97% vs 0.72%, P<0.001).

Researchers have found in a new study that urgent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) with proper perioperative care is a ...

Researchers have found in a new study that pre-operative ultrasound showing isolated common bile duct (CBD) dilation does not ...

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.

Earlier this month, as many as 345 gallstones were removed from a 51-year-old woman's body via a laparoscopic cholecystectomy conducted by surgeons at Bengaluru's Aster RV Hospital.

Although the use of robotic-assisted cholecystectomy increased 37-fold from 2010 to 2019, the procedure was associated with significantly higher rates of bile duct injury compared with ...

Robotic-assisted cholecystectomy was tied to a 0.7% rate of bile duct injury that required definitive surgical reconstruction within 1 year compared with a 0.2% rate for laparoscopic ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Gallstones are hard, solid deposits that form in the gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ in the upper right abdomen beneath the liver. When you eat, the gallbladder ...

Among more than 840,000 adults, the rate of bile duct injury was 0.37% with robotic-assisted surgery and 0.39% with laparoscopic surgery (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.73-1.18, P=0.54), reported Gina Lynn ...