Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the elderly [PDF]
BMC Geriatrics, 2009 Methods We conducted a retrospective study evaluating the medical records of 40 consecutive patients age 70 or older who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Department of Surgical Sciences, Organ Transplantation and Advanced Technologies, Oncology Surgery Unit, University of Catania, Italy.
E. ZAPPULLA +9 more
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National Trends in the Adoption of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy over 7 Years in the United States and Impact of Laparoscopic Approaches Stratified by Age [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction. The aim of this study was to characterize national trends in adoption of laparoscopic cholecystectomy and determine differences in outcome based on type of surgery and patient age. Methods.
Abdul Aziz +4 more
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"Train one, Classify one, Teach one" -- Cross-surgery transfer learning for surgical step recognition [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Prior work demonstrated the ability of machine learning to automatically recognize surgical workflow steps from videos. However, these studies focused on only a single type of procedure. In this work, we analyze, for the first time, surgical step recognition on four different laparoscopic surgeries: Cholecystectomy, Right Hemicolectomy, Sleeve ...
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Trauma and acute care surgeons report prescribing less opioids over time. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionConfronted with the opioid epidemic, surgeons must play a larger role to reduce risk of opioid abuse while managing acute pain. Having a better understanding of the beliefs and practices of trauma and acute care surgeons regarding discharge ...
Anderson, Jamie E +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 2018 Background and Aims: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy is often used as definitive treatment for common bile duct stones.
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to acute calculouscholecystitis in 16 weeks' in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer pregnancy: report of the first case [PDF]
, 2012 The most common casues of acute abdomen during pregnancy are acute appendicitis followed by acute cholecystitis. The case presented is a 33-year-old patient in 16 weeks' in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer pregnacy who developed acute ...
Augustin, Goran +2 more
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IRCAD recommendation on safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences, 2017 An expert recommendation conference was conducted to identify factors associated with adverse events during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) with the goal of deriving expert recommendations for the reduction of biliary and vascular injury.
C. Conrad +20 more
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Reconsideration of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy [PDF]
ISRN Surgery, 2011 We describe the surgical method of cases showing a distended gallbladder. Because the most important thing does not cause biliary tract injury, it is to find orientation carefully. The frequency of incidental gallbladder cancer was in 7 (0.7%) of the 983.
Yoshiaki Suzuki +10 more
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Comparative study of respiratory muscle strength in women undergoing conventional and single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy [PDF]
Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2017 Purpose: To evaluate respiratory muscle strength (PImax and PEmax) before and 24 and 48 h after conventional and single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Methods: Forty women with symptomatic cholelithiasis (18 to 70 years) participated in the study.
Marisa de Carvalho Borges +4 more
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Outpatient Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy [PDF]
HPB Surgery, 1993 Outpatient Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy was attempted in 98 patients selected from 266 patients presenting for elective cholecystectomy (37%). Two patients required admission following conversion to “open” Cholecystectomy, one patient was admitted for observation because of a technically difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and 16 patients were ...
R. Smith, Pace Rf, D. Kolyn
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