Preoperative predictors of difficult early laparoscopic cholecystectomy among patients with acute calculous cholecystitis in Egypt

What is it about?

While laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a widely performed surgery among HPB and general surgeons, EARLY laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in the setting of acute calculous cholecystitis remains to be challenging and technically demanding. Proper assessment of the degree of difficulty of the procedure is crucial especially among young surgeons in the prime of their career or those with potentially limited surgical skills or experience in the field of HPB and laparoscopic surgery to avoid exposing patients to grave catastrophic complications.

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Why is it important?

This article addresses the predictors of difficult EARLY laparoscopic colecystectomy in such high risk group of patients to allow for proper selection of patients with whom surgery may proceed safely or on the other hand decide to ask for help from an expert surgeon to assist or supervise in a potentially technically demanding surgey.