Objective;
Occasionally, common bile duct (CBD) obstruction is occurred after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and migrated gallbladder stone during LC is one of the reasons. The aim of this study is to identify risk factors of gallbladder stone migration during LC.
Methods;
Between May of 2000 and December of 2013, 3054 patients were underwent LC for gallbladder stone and these patients are revealed without CBD stone before LC. Among of these patients, 95 patients experienced CBD obstructio
Keywords: Left sided gallbladder, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Situs inversus, Sigle port.
Introduction:
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures carried out in the world nowadays. While anatomical abnormalities of the biliary system are common; abnormal location of the gallbladder is extremely rare. In published literatures, there is only around 40 cases reported in the pre-laparoscopic era and almost the same number of cases performed with standard laparosc
Background: In the last 10 years, the reported incidence of non-curative laparotomies for pancreatic cancer, using standard imaging techniques for preoperative staging, is 20%-50%. The objectives of this study are 1) to determine the diagnostic accuracy of laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) in assessing resectability of pancreatic tumors; 2) to compare LUS to standard pre-operative imaging; 3) to determine how the accuracy of these modalities has evolved over time.
Methods: A systematic review was
Background:
GSD is one of the most frequent disorders affecting the gastrointestinal tract; its incidence in the adult population is above 58% for females and around 42% for males. Race and ethnicity play a major role in its development, more frequent in hispanics and native descendents.
Objective:
Analyze the incidence, clinical presentation and course and prognosis of GSD in our patients.
Methods and materials
After approval of our institutional IRB a retrospective analysis of a prosp
Introduction: Biliary lithiasis is known to be rare in Africa. In Mauritania the frequency of this pathology is related to some traditional customs such as gavage. The authors report a retrospective descriptive study of 742 patients with gallstones. The aim of the study is to assess the care and the profile of gallstones in general surgery department at the Sheikh Zayed hospital in Nouakchott (Mauritania) on 12 years, period from September 2001 to September 2013.
Patients and Methods: Over a pe