LC has overtaken open cholecystectomy as one of the safest and most effective procedures in general surgery since it was recognized as the standard of care in 1992, 4 years after Phillipe Mouret ...

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

The authors conducted a literature review aimed at determining the frequency of adverse events in patients undergoing single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Literature reports with 20 or more ...

A surgical team has completed the first series of operations with a novel surgical system that can remove a diseased gallbladder through a single incision hidden in the belly button. A surgical team ...

With changing healthcare reform, surgeons, hospitals, and the medical device industry are looking for ways to be more efficient and provide higher quality care to the patients they serve. The drive ...

Cholelithiasis can lead to serious complications. It is therefore important to schedule surgery at the appropriate time, emphasizes Dr. Alexandros Giakoustidis, General Surgeon specializing in liver, ...

Single‑incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy aims to remove the gallbladder through a single incision, which is usually made near the umbilicus. The claimed benefits of this procedure over standard ...

Single port incision surgery for laparoscopic cholecystectomy is coded in the same way as multiple port incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A code from category J18.- Excision of gall bladder below ...