With open surgery, the gallbladder is removed through one larger cut in your belly. And the hospital stay is longer. Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery (cholecystectomy) removes the gallbladder and ...

As robotic cholecystectomy, also known as gallbladder removal, becomes increasingly common, researchers have identified higher rates of bile duct injury in robotic cholecystectomy compared to the ...

An 80-year-old woman underwent surgery for the removal of her gallbladder, only for the surgeon to discover it had already ...

The woman’s condition improved and she was put on a waiting list for laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery, the surgical removal of the gallbladder using a minimally invasive approach ...

Compared to laparoscopic cholecystectomies, the rate of needing a second procedure to repair a bile duct injury is high across the board ...