Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the customary method for treating gallstones. However, some incidents and complications appear rather more frequently than with the open technique. This article briefly discusses several complications associated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
During the past decade, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the procedure of choice in the surgical treatment of symptomatic biliary lithiasis. However, the surgical procedure is not completely risk-free and some complications associated with LC are more frequent as compared with open cholecystectomy Complications Serious complications that occur with LC, including bile duct injury, bile leaks, bleeding and bowel injury results in part from patient selection, surgical inexperience, and the technical constraints that are inherent to the minimally invasive approach. Surgeon experience The overall…
