Abstract

REYES CARDERO, Jorge; PARRA INFANTE, Nelson; GONZALEZ RONDON, Pedro Luis  and  LOPEZ PEREZ, Armando. Conversión de la colecistectomía videoendoscópica: Nuestra experiencia. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

2 508 patients with the diagnosis of benign organic disease of the gall bladder were electively operated on at the General Hospital of Santiago de Cuba from March, 1996, to June, 2002. All of them underwent video-assisted cholecystectomy. In 57 of these patients, it was necessary to turn it into the classical or traditional technique, accounting for 2.2 %. The conversion predominated in male patients over 51. The chronic vesicular plastron anatomical difficulty was the main cause

Keywords : COLECISTECTOMIA; DISTRIBUCION POR EDAD; ESTUDIOS TRANSVERSALES; EPIDEMIOLOGIA DESCRIPTIVA.