[Initial experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy]

The authors discuss the technique and indications for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. n the course of four and a half months they operated, using this technique, 74 patients, in two patients they had to switch over to open cholecystectomy. They did not perform peroperative biligraphy. Complications occurred twice, once an injured ductus choledochus, once a biliary fistula. The mean period of hospitalization was 4.7 days. Advantages of the procedure are minimal surgical trauma, less intense postoperative pain, a shorter hospitalization period, rapid convalescence.