Abstract

GONZALVEZ BERTOT, Jaime; PACO LUNA, Hernan; CABRERA SALAZAR, Jesús  and  PUENTE FONSECA, Claudio. Characterization of surgically treated patients by means of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a pediatric hospital. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.4, pp. 468-475. ISSN 1029-3019.

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 152 exposed patients to videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Surgery Service of the Southern Teaching Pediatric Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from March, 2000 to December, 2012, with the aim of identifying the main clinical and surgical characteristics of this surgery in children. The female sex (54.6%) prevailed in the series and the average age was 10.5 years; also, the vesicular lithiasis turned out to be the most common preoperative diagnosis (97.4%), and 45.4% of the cholecystectomies were carried out between 31 and 60 minutes. On the other hand, the reintervention percentage was 0.65 and that of conversion was 1.3. Only 3 complications were presented (2%) and 40.1% of those patients affected had a hospital stay between 25 and 48 hours

Keywords : child; vesicular lithiasis; cholecystectomy; videolaparoscopic surgery; pediatric hospital.

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