A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World

Trinidad and Tobago, a small twin island republic off the coast of Venezuela, is leading the Caribbean in laparoscopic surgery. While giant gallbladders are usually difficult to operate on and have a high conversion rate from laparoscopic to open procedure, in Trinidad and Tobago a laparoscopic chol...

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Autores principales: Singh, Yardesh, Mohammed, Sidiyq, Hosein, Aqilah, Ramoutar, Kercheval, Naraynsingh, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32494539
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7933
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author Singh, Yardesh
Mohammed, Sidiyq
Hosein, Aqilah
Ramoutar, Kercheval
Naraynsingh, Vijay
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Mohammed, Sidiyq
Hosein, Aqilah
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description Trinidad and Tobago, a small twin island republic off the coast of Venezuela, is leading the Caribbean in laparoscopic surgery. While giant gallbladders are usually difficult to operate on and have a high conversion rate from laparoscopic to open procedure, in Trinidad and Tobago a laparoscopic cholecystectomy involving a giant gallbladder and the largest gallstone ever removed laparoscopically was performed uneventfully.
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spelling pubmed-72657492020-06-02 A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World Singh, Yardesh Mohammed, Sidiyq Hosein, Aqilah Ramoutar, Kercheval Naraynsingh, Vijay Cureus General Surgery Trinidad and Tobago, a small twin island republic off the coast of Venezuela, is leading the Caribbean in laparoscopic surgery. While giant gallbladders are usually difficult to operate on and have a high conversion rate from laparoscopic to open procedure, in Trinidad and Tobago a laparoscopic cholecystectomy involving a giant gallbladder and the largest gallstone ever removed laparoscopically was performed uneventfully. Cureus 2020-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7265749/ /pubmed/32494539 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7933 Text en Copyright © 2020, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Singh, Yardesh
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A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title_full A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title_fullStr A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title_full_unstemmed A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title_short A Giant Gallstone: The Largest Gallstone Removed Laparoscopically in the World
title_sort giant gallstone: the largest gallstone removed laparoscopically in the world
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32494539
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7933
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