[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy without cholangiography]

The results assembled in a group of 260 patients subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy without i.v. cholangiography (0.38% residual stones, entirely successful perioperative endoscopic treatment, no biliary lesion) confirm that a low incidence of residual cholelithiasis, elimination of revision on account of concrements in the bile duct and absence of biliary lesions can be achieved without obligatory preoperative cholangiography even in a non-selected clinical group. When therapeutic "splitting" is used, peroperative selective cholangiography is not necessary.