Walter Griffin died in India in 1937 of peritonitis following a cholecystectomy.
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The surgical removal of the gallbladder is called a cholecystectomy.
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You're about to go under the knife for, let's say, a cholecystectomy.
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This operation is called a cholecystectomy.
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Cholecystectomy, the surgical removal of the gallbladder, is one of the most common surgical procedures done worldwide.
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This is the hospital where the first published case of a single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the world was done using the ViKY system.
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Researchers prospectively studied 1,008 patients with upper abdominal pain who had elective cholecystectomy for uncomplicated gallstone disease.
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This is much more common and less invasive than an open cholecystectomy, which involves making a six-inch incision in the abdomen and cutting through to the gallbladder.
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Typically, the gallbladder is then removed, an operation called cholecystectomy, to prevent a future occurrence of common bile duct obstruction or other complications.
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Surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain)
Operation to remove the gallbladder.
A term that describes the surgical removal of the gallbladder. Often this surgery is performed unnecessarily in acute porphyria patients before a porphyria diagnosis has been confirmed.