Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report

Cholelithiasis is very common, affecting around 10-15% of the general population, but giant gallstones measuring 5 cm or more are very rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is very difficult in such cases, especially in emergency situations, but can...

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Autor principal: Alfehaid, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540462
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31546
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description Cholelithiasis is very common, affecting around 10-15% of the general population, but giant gallstones measuring 5 cm or more are very rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is very difficult in such cases, especially in emergency situations, but can be safely performed by skilled surgeons. One such 47-year-old male with a giant gallstone measuring 8.7 cm x 4.2 cm x 3.4 cm was safely managed by laparoscopic approach and is presented due to its rarity.
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spelling pubmed-97547342022-12-19 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report Alfehaid, Mohammed Cureus Radiology Cholelithiasis is very common, affecting around 10-15% of the general population, but giant gallstones measuring 5 cm or more are very rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is very difficult in such cases, especially in emergency situations, but can be safely performed by skilled surgeons. One such 47-year-old male with a giant gallstone measuring 8.7 cm x 4.2 cm x 3.4 cm was safely managed by laparoscopic approach and is presented due to its rarity. Cureus 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9754734/ /pubmed/36540462 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31546 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alfehaid et al. https://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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Alfehaid, Mohammed
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title_full Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title_fullStr Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title_short Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for a Giant Gallstone: A Case Report
title_sort laparoscopic cholecystectomy for a giant gallstone: a case report
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540462
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31546
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