Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now accepted as a surgical procedure for
acute cholecystitis when it is performed by an expert surgeon. There are several lines of …

Cholecystectomy has been widely performed in the treatment of acute cholecystitis, and
laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been increasingly adopted as the method of surgery over …

Abstract Background/Purpose Despite the fact that there is evidence advocating early
laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (AC), the practice of this treatment has …

BACKGROUND Recent management of acute cholecystitis favors same admission (SA) or
emergent cholecystectomy based on overall shorter hospital stay and therefore cost savings …

Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered nowadays as the standard
management of acute cholecystitis (AC). However, results from multicentric studies in the …

Introduction Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become a popular alternative to open
cholecystectomy (OC) in the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC). Laparoscopic …

Background Although early laparoscopic cholecystectomy is widely performed for acute
cholecystitis, the optimal timing of a cholecystectomy in clinically ill patients remains …

Abstract In 2007, the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and
cholecystitis (TG07) were first published in the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery …

Background/aims The optimal timing of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in the treatment
of acute cholecystitis remains controversial. This retrospective study was undertaken to …

We propose a new flowchart for the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) in the Tokyo
Guidelines 2018 (TG18). Grade III AC was not indicated for straightforward laparoscopic …