A 38 year old Hispanic Female was lost to follow up after biliary stent placement for choledocholithiasis, and this resulted in severe obstruction of her bile ducts 12 years later. This video shows
Determining tumor invasiveness before operation is one of the most important unsolved issues in the management of gallbladder cancer. We hypothesized that the assessm
In normal situations, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) usually starts with dissection from the triangle of Calot upwards towards the dome of the gallbladder. However,
Most studies recommend cholecystectomy for patients with biliary dyskinesia, defined by gallbladder ejection fraction (GBEF) of less than 35 – 40% on HIDA scan.
The Tokyo guideline for acute cholecystitis (AC) recommends percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) followed by cholecystectomy for severe AC. But the