COMPARISON OF BILIARY LEAKAGE IN LAPAROSCOPIC AND OPEN CHOLECYSTECTOMY

1Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 2Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 3Professor, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 4Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 5Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 6Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 7Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 8Intern, Department of General Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Laparoscopic surgery is unsafe and technically impossible in case a gall-bladder disease has changed the usual anatomic landmarks. Though, open cholecystectomy has fewer incidents of biliary leakage, the risk cannot be avoided. However, it seems that with adoption of preventive measures and requisite skills, the biliary leakage rate has been controlled in laparoscopic surgery. The study aimed to compare the frequency and cause of biliary leak between laparoscopic (LC) and open cholecystectomy (OC).