If you have open surgery, you will probably stay in the hospital for 2 to 4 days. And it may take 4 to 6 weeks to get back to your normal routine. Cholecystectomy is usually laparoscopic surgery. To ...

Dr. Courtney Harris, a pediatric surgeon at ECU Health, recently performed the health system’s first pediatric robotic-assisted cholecystectomy ... at the children’s hospital and helped ...

We believe that empiric cholecystectomy is a reasonable treatment option in such patients. The main clinical dilemma is how to treat a patient if there is only an increased suspicion for a biliary ...

McKie, MD, MPH, of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ... than one-third of all children undergoing non-emergent cholecystectomy, aiming to optimize both surgical site infection ...

In the current study, we investigated 56 patients with bile duct lesions associated with cholecystectomy. The type of biliary lesion was classified by using endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

During follow-up, 19,889 women had a first hospital admission for gallbladder disease, and 86% of these patients underwent cholecystectomy. Consistent with previous studies, HRT users had an ...