[Difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy]

The study analyses different situations encountered throughout the authors personal operative experience, susceptible to generate technical and tactical difficulties during laparoscopic cholecystectomy such as: postoperative perivisceritis, obesity, difficult liver mobilization, lipomatosis, acute and scleroatrophic cholecystitis, "porcelain gallbladder". They also point out different causes capable of generating important bleeding during the operation: cirrhosis, accidental adhesion tearing, anatomical arterial variations. Above all, the study presents the possible technical and tactical solutions which they applied when dealing with the already mentioned critical situations.