OBJECTIVE We conducted a retrospective 4-year study of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy at a freestanding ambulatory surgery center. Data on rates of hospital admission, conversion to open surgery, bile duct injury, postoperative bile leakage, and incidence of choledocholithiasis were analyzed. The success rate for dynamic fluoroscopic intraoperative cholangiography was computed...

OBJECTIVES To summarize the pathotyping and clinical manifestations of biliary cast syndrome in patients after an orthotopic liver transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical manifestations, auxiliary examination, therapeutic regimen, and clinical efficacy of 103 biliary cast syndrome patients who underwent an orthotopic liver transplant were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were divided...

BACKGROUND Situs inversus totalis is a rare autosomal disorder in which the patient's affected visceral organs are a perfect mirror image of their normal positions. Surgery in these patients is technically challenging. Minimally invasive surgery such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard treatment for symptomatic cholelithiasis, but it can be difficult to perform. Laparoscopic cholecy...

The purpose of the study was to summarize and analyze available data on modern methods additional imaging using indocyanine green (ICG) used in abdominal surgical oncology. Material Methods . search analysis publications over last 7–10 years carried out RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index), E-library, PubMed, Scopus, MedLine, Elsevier, Web Science, ScienceDirect systems. following keywords wer...

Hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC) is a rare tumor that causes devastating disease. In the late stages, this carcinoma primarily invades the portal vein and metastasizes to the hepatic lobes; it is associated with a poor prognosis. HC is diagnosed by its clinical manifestation and results of imaging techniques such as ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, endo...

The patient was a 72-year-old man who was receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) with a diagnosis of chronic renal failure. Although his response to dialysis therapy was favorable, right hypochondralgia and fever occurred, and gallstones were detected by abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography. Drip-infusion cholangiography (DIC) revealed neither dilation nor calcu...

A 29-year old white homosexual man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome presented initially with right upper quadrant pain and progressive cholestasis. Diffuse mucosal irregularities were seen at endoscopic retrograde cholangiography. Histopathological examination of the gallbladder and wedge liver biopsy showed evidence of cytomegalovirus infection. A repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangio...

Gallbladder rupture due to blunt abdominal injury is rare. There are few reports of traumatic gallbladder injury, and it is commonly associated with other concomitant visceral injuries. Therefore, it is difficult to diagnose traumatic gallbladder rupture preoperatively when it is caused by blunt abdominal injury. We report a patient who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy after an exact preo...