Experience of first 100 cases of laparoscopic surgery

Laparoscopic surgery has become a standard surgical treatment for elective cholecystectomy. Elective and emergency appendectomy is also now been done routinely. This study was carried out at Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan, to document the first 100 cases of laparoscopic surgery. It included 78 cholecysectomies and 22 appendesectomies with special reference to conversion. Seven patients were converted to open cholecystectomy with conversion rate of 8.97%. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a safe procedure with minimum scars for all patients with cholelithiasis. However we still have a higher rate of conversion in acute cholecystitis. The conversion rate is likely to reduce with the passage of time and experience