Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Personal experience
Sacco, D.; Bardella, R.; Paron, L.; Cardino, L.
Minerva Chirurgica 49(10): 913-915
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4733 PMID: 7808664 Document Number: 431030
The authors present their experience (136 cases) in the treatment of cholelithiasis with coelioscopic cholecystecomy. After a comparison of this modern technique with the traditional laparotomic approach, they underline the several advantages of coelioscopy (short hospitalization and early return to patient's work, reduced post-operative abdominal pain, avoidance of laparocele, better aesthetic results). Then the authors describe the present treatment of combined cholecysto-choledochic lithiasis with the help fo ERCP (their hope is for further improvement in surgical instruments to allow a single laparoscopic solutions.