Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

A laparoscopic cholecystectomy is surgery to remove the gallbladder. The surgeon makes small incisions on the right side of your abdomen. The surgeon inserts a laparoscope, a thin tube with a camera at the end, through an incision. This shows your gallbladder on a screen. The gallbladder is then removed through another small incision.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is less invasive than open cholecystectomy. This other form of gallbladder removal requires a larger incision. A laparoscopic cholecystectomy helps people with gallstones that cause pain and infection.

Gallstones are crystals that form in the gallbladder. They can block the flow of bile from the gallbladder to the digestive system. This obstruction causes cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder). Gallstones can also travel to other parts of the body and cause problems.

Symptoms of gallstones include:

• Feeling bloated.
• Fever
•  Jaundice (yellow-looking skin).
• Nausea
• Pain in the right side of the abdomen, which may reach the back of the shoulder.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the removal of a diseased gallbladder.

• CBD exploration,
• Hepatico-jejunostomy,
• Gallbladder cancer surgery,