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The cost of laparoscopic versus open cholecystectomy in a community hospital.

This retrospective study reviewed the hospital and professional costs, charges, and reimbursements for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (lap chole) and open cholecystectomy (open chole) and compared the two procedures. There was no significant difference…

Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to the Gallbladder.

Tags: 2018, Aged, Carcinoma, Cholecystectomy, Cocieru Andrei, Deeken Amy, Female, Gallbladder Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging/pathology/*secondary/surgery, Gallbladder/diagnostic imaging/pathology/surgery, Hazen Ben, Humans, Journal of gastrointestinal cancer, Kidney Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging/*pathology, Renal Cell/diagnostic imaging/pathology/*secondary/surgery, Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Does preoperative rofecoxib (Vioxx) decrease postoperative pain with laparoscopic cholecystectomy?

BACKGROUND: A prospective, randomized, double-blinded clinical trial was designed to study the effects of preemptive rofecoxib (Vioxx) analgesia in patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. METHODS: One hundred-twenty patients were…

Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver.

We present a multiseptated mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver in a 10-year-old male patient, a rare benign tumor of childhood. The characteristic ultrasound and CT appearances of this unusual tumor are reviewed. A single septal calcification…

Tags: 2001, Boinapally S B, Calcinosis/diagnostic imaging/surgery, Child, Cholangiography, Cholecystectomy, Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society, Diagnosis, Differential, Goyal M, Hamartoma/*diagnostic imaging/surgery, Humans, Konez O, Liver Diseases/*diagnostic imaging/surgery, Male, Tomography, Ultrasonography, Vyas P K, X-Ray Computed

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a community hospital: experience with 600 laparoscopic cholecystectomies.

We reviewed 600 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in a teaching community hospital from May 1990 to August 1992. The safety, efficacy, morbidity, and mortality of LC, as performed by one surgeon or under his direct supervision,…

Tags: 1994, Cholecystectomy, Cholecystectomy/statistics & numerical data, Community, Female, Hospitals, Humans, Intraoperative Complications/epidemiology, Journal of laparoendoscopic surgery, Laparoscopic/mortality/*statistics & numerical data, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications/epidemiology, Retrospective Studies, Silverman R S, Teaching, Williams G B

Morgagni hernia: incidental repair during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Anterior diaphragmatic hernias are a relatively rare finding. They can occur on either side of the body. We diagnosed and treated a Morgagni hernia during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Tags: *Laparoscopy, 1995, Cholecystectomy, Cholelithiasis/*complications/surgery, Diaphragmatic/complications/*surgery, Female, Ghani A, Hernia, Humans, Journal of laparoendoscopic surgery, Laparoscopic, Middle Aged, Smith J

Two-trocar cholecystectomy by strategic laparoscopy for improved cosmesis (SLIC).

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Until the advent of singleincision laparoscopic surgery, few advances were aimed at improving cosmesis with laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Criticisms of the single-incision laparoscopic surgery technique include a larger…

Management of gallstone pancreatitis during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

In a 22 year study, 21 women had acute pancreatitis develop during pregnancy (11 women) or within six weeks post partum (ten women). Gallstones were the cause of the pancreatitis in all. Operation during the acute attack of pancreatitis was required…

Tags: 1989, Acute Disease, Block P, Cholecystectomy, Cholelithiasis/complications/*surgery, Female, Humans, Kelly T R, Pancreatitis/etiology/*surgery, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications/*surgery, Pregnancy Trimester, Puerperal Disorders/*surgery, Second, Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics

Gallstone pancreatitis: a prospective randomized trial of the timing of surgery.

The correct timing of surgery in cases of gallstone pancreatitis is debatable. To delineate more clearly the influence of the timing of surgery in the treatment of the disease, a prospective randomized clinical study of early surgery (less than 48…

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