Cholecystectomy by mini-approach in the treatment of cholelithiasis
Vetshev, P.S.; Chilingaridi, K.E.; Ippolitov, L.I.; Shpachenko, F.A.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 79(1): 50-54
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 11234270 Document Number: 540081
Along with wide-spread laparoscopic cholecystectomy, cholelithiasis can be treated with another sparing technique--miniaccess cholecystectomy (MACE). Case histories and long-term treatment outcomes were analysed for 168 patients aged 23-77 years subjected to MACE with elements of open laparoscopy for chronic calculous cholecystitis. Surgery was made using a special surgical kit "Mini-assistant" by the team of two surgeons and an instrument nurse. After MACE the patients resume their jobs after a shorter period of inability, suffer from side effects of surgery in rare cases, have higher quality of life than patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.