Open AccessPost-cholecystectomy syndrome: A new look at an old problem
Author(s) -
Divya Arora,
Robin Kaushik,
Ravinder Kaur,
Atul Sachdev
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/jmas.jmas_92_17
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , cholecystectomy , laparoscopic cholecystectomy , surgery , cholecystitis , elective surgery , open cholecystectomy , acute cholecystitis , general surgery , gallbladder , physics , optics
Despite being the most commonly performed operations, sometimes cholecystectomy fails to relieve symptoms; this is now a well-recognised clinical entity termed 'post-cholecystectomy syndrome' (PCS). Very few studies from India deal with PCS, and the present study was carried out to find the incidence and risk factors for PCS in patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).