Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a standard treatment for patients with gallstones in the
gallbladder. However, multiple risk factors affect the probability of conversion from …

Background We previously identified 25 intraoperative findings during laparoscopic
cholecystectomy (LC) as potential indicators of surgical difficulty per nominal group …

Background The prediction of a difficult cholecystectomy has traditionally been based on
certain pre-operative clinical and imaging factors. Most of the previous literature reported …

Introduction Variation in outcomes from surgery is a major challenge and defining surgical
findings may help set benchmarks, which currently do not exist in laparoscopic …

AIMS: To develop a scoring method that predicts difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Bidirectional prospective study in a medical college setup …

Background Few studies have used operative time as a reflection of the surgical difficulty to
create a preoperative score of operative difficulty in laparoscopic cholecystectomies (DiLCs …

Introduction Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the gold-standard approach for
cholecystectomy, has surprisingly variable outcomes and conversion rates. Only recently …

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the procedure of choice for
management of symptomatic gallstone disease. At times, it is difficult and takes longer time …

Background Serious complications continue to occur in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).
The commonly used indicators of surgical difficulty such as the duration of surgery are …

Background Generally, surgeons' perceptions of surgical safety are based on experience
and institutional policy. Our recent pilot survey demonstrated that the acceptable duration of …