[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and its safety--observations after 2000 procedures].

Abstract

The authors experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the group of 2200 patients operated on from March 1992 to September 1996 is discussed. The complications rate at the beginning and at the end of the study is expressed. In the last 100 cases there was conversion rate of 1%, no biliary injury was observed and the average postoperative hospital stay was 2.26 days. In the whole group of patients biliary injuries were observed in 0.18%. Lethality was 0.13%. The authors conclude, that laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a save method in the treatment of the gallstone disease, when certain rules are respected.