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Hector Orozco, MD; Miguel Angel Mercado, MD
Mexico City, Mexico

Arch Surg. 1999;134:310.

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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard criterion for treatment of symptomatic gallbladder lithiasis in developed countries. No doubt about its advantages has been raised, and although biliary tract injuries are higher when compared with the open approach, they have no statistical significance. For developing countries (ie, most of the countries of the world), there is no information available whether cholecystectomies are always done through the laparoscopic route.

Seale and Ledet report their results with minicholecystectomy and explain its advantage, as a safe, cost-effective, day surgical procedure. A large series of cases is performed with virtually no complications and no common duct injuries, challenging and even surpassing all the results reported with the laparoscopic approach. Should this be the preferred approach for both rich and poor countries? Given the results reported, there can be no doubt that the surgical community worldwide could benefit from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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