[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Report of 60 cases]

We present our experience in 60 patients operated of Laparoscopy cholecistectomy, in the last 10 months of activity (we started in June 1990), 25 patients were operated on in the General Hospital No. 8 IMSS, 18 patients in General Hospital "Dr Fdo Quiroz" of ISSSTE and another 17 patients in different places. All of them had gallstones, 51 of the patients were women and 9 were men, the age of the patients was 42.2 years old. The surgery average time was 1.24 hrs with time between 0.32 and 2.25 hours. We operated on 4 patients with acute cholecystitis, three patients were operated on with conventional surgery, and other patient were operated on 10 days later for an Gallbladder Bed Abscess. We have no mortality, all the patients stay at the hospital just for 48 hours and they were ready to work in the next 4 or 8 days.