[3-trocar video laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a retrospective study].

Abstract	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the gold standard for lithiasis of the gallbladder. Over the period from 1991 to 2000, the authors performed 1,321 videolaparoscopic cholecystectomies in the Surgical Division of San Giovanni Battista Hospital in Zagarolo (Rome). From January 1998 to December 2000, 390 of these patients were operated on consecutively utilising only three trocars. The authors report on this restricted subgroup of patients and stress that videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice. They claim that routine perioperative cholangiography is useless and that a fourth trocar is unnecessary.
Authors	Domenico Stefano Polito, Gaetano Florio, Silvestro Cisternino, Guerino Francesco Pinna, Antonio Nazzaro, Alfredo Fava
Journal	Chirurgia italiana (Chir Ital) 2002 Jan-Feb Vol. 54 Issue 1 Pg. 55-7 ISSN: 0009-4773 [Print] Italy
Vernacular Title	La colecistectomia videolaparoscopica utilizzando tre trocar: studio retrospettivo.
PMID	11942010 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
Topics	Adenoma (surgery) Adolescent Adult Aged Cholangiography Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic (instrumentation) Cholecystitis (surgery) Cholelithiasis (diagnostic imaging, surgery) Edema (surgery) Empyema (surgery) Female Gallbladder Diseases (surgery) Gallbladder Neoplasms (surgery) Humans Male Middle Aged Postoperative Complications Video-Assisted Surgery

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