THE LEARNING CURVE OF FIRST ONE HUNDRED LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
Jassim H Salim, Hashim S AL-Khayat
Basrah Journal of Surgery · 2010
doi:10.33762/bsurg.2010.55435 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Laparoscopic cholecyctectomy became gold standard for treatment of symptomatic gall stone disease. Analysis of the first hundred patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy to study the learning curve and complications. The highest number of patients underwent completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy 54 (90%) and the lowest conversion rate 10% (6/60) with high percentage 22% of patients with complicated gall stone disease during year of 2004. Biliary injury 2%, occurred mainly in the early years. Total conversion rate was 21%. These results were improved with~1
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