LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY - ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Authors
WOISETSCHLAGER R RIEGER R SCHRENK P WAYAND W
Citation
R. Woisetschlager et al., LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY - ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES, Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie, 118(3), 1993, pp. 135-139
Citations number
NO
Journal title
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie → ACNP
ISSN journal
0044409X
Volume
118
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
135 - 139
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-409X(1993)118:3<135:LC-AAD>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
From march 1990 to february 1992 we performed 600 laparoscopic cholecy stectomies. In 18 cases we had to change to a laparotomy because of in traoperative problems, in 3 cases we had to laparotomise patients beca use of postoperative complications, 9 patients (1,5 %) had a wound inf ection. In two prospective studies we could prove that patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy have less pain and are in a better respir atory condition than after open cholecystectomy.