1. Surgical Technique and Difficult Situations from Francesco Crafa
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Francesco Ruotolo, Mario Baiamonte, Francesco Paolo Prete, Francesco Crafa, and Francesco Bavetta
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Standard treatment ,General surgery ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Gallstones ,Common procedures ,medicine.disease ,Biliary anatomy ,Disease severity ,Biliary tract ,medicine ,Acute cholecystitis ,Cholecystectomy ,business - Abstract
The most common biliary tract procedure currently performed is the laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the current standard treatment of symptomatic gallstones and one of the most common procedures being performed by the general surgeons all over the world for cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis. A number of diverse factors including biliary anatomy and disease severity may render LC challenging, especially to the surgeon ascending the learning curve. Difficult cholecystectomy may be associated with serious complications and a high conversion rate, and no consensus is found among surgeons on how to manage difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We present our current strategies to manage difficult cholecystectomy, classifying the difficulty of the cases we discuss by intraoperative difficulty as
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- 2017
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