[Right-sided pneumothorax--a complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy]

In a 49-years old woman cholecystolithiasis was confirmed by sonography and she was admitted for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. During the operation right-sided pneumothorax developed as a result of the injury of diaphragma by monopolar electrocautery. Operation was converted and the injury was treated by continuous suture. Carbon dioxide was spontaneously resorbed from thoracic cavity during the 5 days following the operation without tube thoracostomy. The operating wound was healed per primam and the patient was discharged on the 14th postoperative day.