Effectiveness of Mininvasive Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy when Stony Cholecystitis is Complicated by Mechanical Jaundice

Abstract

Cholecystectomy is especially one of the laparoscopic treatments that many surgical assistants firstly learn and apply. The validity of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is today indisputable in symptomatic gallbladder stones, other benign gallbladder diseases and early stage malignancy according to certain authors. It is already the most common and widely applied laparoscopic intervention today. Between 20 and 40% of patients with gallstones will develop gallstone-related complications, with an incidence of 1–3% annually; calculus cholecystitis (CC) is the first clinical presentation in 10–15% of the cases.