Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: technical consideration and preliminary results

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is widely gaining acceptance among surgeons. It is an effective and safe procedure which has the advantages of being minimally invasive and of decreasing the hospital stay of the patients and hence decreasing the costs incurred by the patients subjected of cholecystectomy. Attention to the minute details of the technique and acquiring the necessary training should be a must before using this procedure with its associated high technology. The present work underlines the details of the technique and presents the preliminary results of the initial 12 cases