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Complications in Biliary Surgery
Friday, 23 April 2010 05:29 | 
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- Cholecystectomy is the most common major abdominal procedure performed in Western countries.
- Carl Langenbuch performed the first successful cholecystectomy in 1882, and for over 100 years it was the standard treatment for symptomatic gallbladder stones.
- Complications of laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy can be classified as major, typically involving injury to the common bile duct or common hepatic duct, or minor, usually evidenced as a bile leak with ensuing bile peritonitis or biloma.
- Most complications following surgical procedures on the biliary system are related to iatrogenic injury.
- Early recognition of injury directly affects the outcome.
- The use of laparoscopy in complications of biliary surgery has various advantages, being both diagnostic and therapeutic
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