Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is increasingly performed in children, yet bile duct injury remains a serious and potentially ...

October 11, 2007 (New Orleans) — Laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed on slightly younger, healthier patients in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) is safe and significantly less costly than in ...

In Medicare beneficiaries with varying levels of risk for adverse postoperative outcomes, the rate of bile duct injury is three times higher with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy than with ...

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Determination of Severity of Acute Cholecystitis. Comparison of Access-Port Locations and Diameters for Conventional Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Mini-Laparoscopic ...

Gallbladder surgery typically results in three or four small scars on your abdomen. These may disappear eventually, but you can take steps to help the healing process and minimize their appearance.

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

Laparoscopy is a type of surgery that gets its name from the laparoscope, a slender tool that has a tiny video camera and light on the end. When a surgeon inserts it through a small cut into your body ...

A Delhi hospital treated a 35-year-old woman with recurrent abdominal pain from gallstones using a mini-laparoscopic ...