Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Besides the Evidence (What Is Really Done In the World)

   • Ferdinando Agresta, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Nereo Vettoretto

   Pages 1-7

3. Operative Strategies in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Is There Any Evidence?

   • Fabio Cesare Campanile, Ferdinando Agresta, Nereo Vettoretto, Roberto Cirocchi, Mario Campli

   Pages 9-21

4. Indications to Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

   • Gianfranco Silecchia, Fernando Serventi, Nicola Cillara, Stefania Fiume, Gianluigi Luridiana

   Pages 23-44

5. Biliary Tree Stones

   • Carlo Bergamini, Massimiliano Mutignani, Giovanni Alemanno, Alessandro Sturiale, Emilia Masci, Fiorenza Belli et al.

   Pages 45-57

6. Laparoscopy and Acute Cholecystitis: The Evidence

   • Fabio Cesare Campanile, Alessandro Carrara, Michele Motter, Luca Ansaloni, Ferdinando Agresta

   Pages 59-72

7. Number of Trocars, Types of Dissection, Exploration of Bile Duct, Drainage and Analgesia

   • Pietro Maida, Gianluca Guercioni, Giuseppe Miranda, Gianpaolo Marte, Marco Nunziante, Luigi Barra et al.

   Pages 73-87

8. Complications: How to Prevent and Manage Them

   • Piero Narilli, Annalisa Di Filippo, Mario Campli, Michele Motter, Alessandro Carrara

   Pages 89-101

9. New Technologies

   • Nereo Vettoretto, Francesco Feroci, Federico Perna, Salvatore Vadalà, Cristina Virzì

   Pages 103-115

10. Real Benefits of the Laparoscopic Approach

    • Pietro Lombari, Nicola Carlomagno, Gabriele Ricci, Lorenzo Asciore, Luca Lazzaro, Antonio Iannucci

    Pages 117-129

11. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Day Surgery

    • Pietro Lombari, Nicola Carlomagno, Gabriele Ricci, Xheseda Dumani, Fabrizio Cantore, Ferdinando Salzano de Luna

    Pages 131-139

12. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Training, Learning Curve, and Definition of Expert

    • Domenico Marchi, Maria Grazia Esposito, Ivan G. Gentile, Francesco Gilio

    Pages 141-147

13. The Expert Opinion: An International Audit

    • Alessandro Carrara, Ferdinando Agresta, Luigi Ricciardelli, Michele Motter, Gianmarco Ghezzi

    Pages 149-157

14. Establishing Pneumoperitoneum: What Is the Safest Technique for Pneumoperitoneum?

    • Gian Luca Baiocchi, Daniela Prando, Davide Piccolo, Francesco Brandara, Luigi Ciccoritti, Federico Gheza et al.

    Pages 159-169

15. Anesthetic Management for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

    • Gabriele Armellin, Massimo Micaglio

    Pages 171-180

16. Back Matter

    Pages 181-185

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This book, written by expert surgeons, offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of all aspects of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Coverage includes the indications for surgery, anesthesia, surgical technique, and the prevention and management of complications, with extensive reference to the latest clinical evidence and assessment of the benefits of the laparoscopic approach, for example in terms of outcomes and day surgery. New technologies, including SILS, NOTES, robotic surgery, and miniaturized instruments, are reviewed. The learning curve and training are also extensively discussed, and an individual chapter is devoted to the views of international experts in the field. Readers will find the book to be an ideal guide to this gold standard technique, which continues to evolve some 20 years after the National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference first published recommendations regarding indications for laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

• Intraoperative cholecystectomy
• Pneumoperitoneum
• anesthesiology
• emergency and scheduled surgery
• new technologies in cholecystectomy
• abdominal surgery

• Department of General Surgery, ULSS19 del Veneto, ADRIA, Italy

  Ferdinando Agresta

• Division of General Surgery, Hospital S.Giovanni Decollato Andosilla, Civita Castellana, Italy

  Fabio Cesare Campanile

• Unit of Laparoscopic Surgery, Hospital Mellino Mellini, Chiari, Italy

  Nereo Vettoretto

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