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Cholecystectomy

Research from F. Davila and co-authors provides new data about cholecystectomy

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, September 18th, 2009

"Pioneers in natural orifice transvaginal cholecystectomy are in search of an approach that uses less percutaneous assistance. The approach must be safe and affordable," investigators in the United States report.

"The authors present a successful Cholecystectomy using a technique of transvaginal operative laparoscopy with no abdominal ports. A 24-year-old female patient with gallbladder lithiasis underwent a natural orifice cholecystectomy with only one transvaginal 12-mm port, Using a laparoscope with a working channel. We used laparoscopic instruments 5 mm in diameter by 43cm in length (including a needle holder, Maryland dissector clamp, spatula, hook, suction...

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