Abstract Background The Critical View of Safety (CVS) has been increasingly recognised as
the standard method for identification of the cystic structures, to prevent vasculobiliary …

Sclerosing cholangitis (SC) represents a spectrum of chronic progressive cholestatic
diseases of the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic biliary system characterized by patchy …

Background Hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) is the gold standard procedure for the reconstruction
of the bile duct in many benign and malignant situations. One of the major situation is the …

Background Major bile duct injuries (BDI) following cholecystectomy require complex
reconstructive surgery. The aim was to collect the liver transplantations (LT) performed in …

Purpose Iatrogenic bile duct injuries (BDI) following laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC)
result in major morbidity and incidental mortality. There is a lack of unselected population …

Hepatic surgery is a rapidly expanding component of abdominal surgery and is performed
for a wide range of indications. The introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1987 …

Background: Multiple scores have been created in order to predict difficult cholecystectomy,
nonetheless there is not a consensuated standard on which to use. The importance of a …

Abstract Background The Critical View of Safety (CVS) was proposed in 1995 to prevent bile
duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). The achievement of CVS was …

Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard surgical approach in
the treatment of cholelithiasis. Diverse surgical techniques and different imaging modalities …

Post-cholecystectomy iatrogenic bile duct injuries (IBDIs), are not uncommon and although
the frequency of IBDIs vary across the literature, the rates following the procedure of …