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Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied:
Symptomatic chronic cholelithiasis
Health condition(s) code:
Cholecystolithiasis
Cholelithiasis
Gallbladder Diseases
Bile Duct Diseases
Biliary Tract Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Intervention(s):
All patients in both groups were operated on by the same experienced laparoscopic surgeon. A similar general anesthesia technique was followed in all cases. After pneumoperitoneum and initial laparoscopic exploration via umbilical trocar, and if not any exclusion criterion was present, the patients were randomized in two groups (A-experimental, B-control) by the sealed-envelope method based on a computer-generated list. In experimental group (n=50), the proposed new modified technique of mini-laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed. In the control group (n=50), the conventional four-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed. For mini-laparoscopic cholecystectomy experimental group two news laparoscopic instruments were designed: Gallbladder Retractor (GR) and Knot pusher with simultaneous coaxial traction (KP). The GR is a new 1,5-mm device for laparoscopy, designed to retract the gallbladder obviating the need to retract the fundus by the grasping forceps introduced through the subcostal 5-mm port in conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The KP is another new device for laparoscopy, designed to place endo-loops on gallbladder wall for retraction with suture, obviating the need to retract the neck of gallbladder by 2nd grasping forceps introduced through the midclavicular subcostal 5-mm port in conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy, without the risk of bile leakage associated to traction of sutures passed through the gallbladder wall in precedent "puppets techniques".
Intervention code:
Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic
Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial
Cholecystectomy
Laparoscopy
Intervention keyword:
Gallbladder retractor,
Knot pusher with simultaneous coaxial traction