SEVERE COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY

The case of a series of grave complications after a laparoscopic chole cystectomy is reported: a common bile duct section diagnosed rather la te, hemoperitoneum, inappropriate common bile duct reconstruction and late anastomic leakage, stenosis of an hepatico-jejunal anastomosis, h aemorrhage through the external biliary drainage and iterating sepsis. The final outcome was good The stenotic hepatico-jejunal anastomosis was dilated by a Gianturco self-expanding prosthesis percutaneously pl aced. As an evidence, this alternative treatment is only exceptional, the treatment of choice for postsurgical benign strictures being surgi cal repair.