[Reasons for conversion in the first 200 laparoscopic cholecystectomies]

In this paper, the authors analyzed the reasons for conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LH) into an open method (OH) in the group of 200 patients. In 8 (4%) patients the conversion of laparoscopic procedure was done. Reasons for conversion were the following: growth in abdomen (1.5%), empyema of gallbladder (1%), bleeding (0.5%), injuries of gallbladder tract (0.5%), and complications in pneumoperitoneum (0.5%). All complications because of which the conversion was performed were treated with classic surgical methods, and there were no death cases. The incidence of complications which required conversion of LH among our subjects is close to the reports of other authors with significantly larger number of patients.