What is it about?
This paper provides a classification, which encompasses four variants, five technical modalities (subvariants), and extent of laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy (STC).
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Why is it important?
Figures 1, 2 and 3 depict four variants and five technical modalities (subvariants) of laparoscopic STC. The schemes of STC are practical when a surgeon considers conversion from laparoscopic cholecystectomy to laparoscopic STC in challenging surgical circumstances. Surgical actions for branches of the cystic artery and remnant mucosa, type of completion of STC (fenestrating or reconstituting) and patterns of perihepatic drainage, are not features of this STC classification.
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It is a new synthesis of numerous technical details described by surgeons over the past 120 years and personal experience in laparoscopic biliary surgery – acute in the absolute majority of the cases. It has an added value to well-known terminologies.
Mr Raimundas Lunevicius
University of Liverpool
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This page is a summary of: Laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy: a classification, which encompasses the variants, technical modalities, and extent of resection of the gallbladder, Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, April 2020, Royal College of Surgeons of England,
DOI: 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0007.
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