[Situations of conversion during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: series of 300 cholecystectomies]

Laparoscopy is the "gold standard" for cholecystectomy, wherever it can happen that the surgeon must converse to laparotomy. The authors report 300 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy; the conversion rate was 9%; for cholecystitis (19%), cystic hemorrhage (3.7%) common bile duct (7.4%) and failure of material (11%). It resort from that study that laparoscopic cholecystectomy is safe, wherever it keeps some limits and conversion still remains a security and don't be assimilated to a failure.