The purpose of this article is to compare the complication rates of imaging-guided percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) between transperitoneal and transhepatic approaches. We performed a database search for patients who underwent imaging-guided percutaneous cholecystostomy from Dec., 2009 to Jun., 2012. Four hundred sixty-five patients were included in our study. These patients were subdivided in...

BACKGROUND The mainstay of therapy for acute cholecystitis is cholecystectomy, which has a mortality of 14-30% in high risk patients. An alternative approach in patients suffering from acute cholecystitis with contraindications to emergency surgery is percutaneous cholecystostomy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous cholecystostomy as the initial treatment of acute c...

The aim of the work is to assess the performance and effectiveness of intraoperative cholangiography or choledochoscopy in the prevention of choledocholithiasis oversight. The effectiveness of choledochoscopy was assessed in 50 patients during the years 2001-2002. Since 2000 intraoperative cholangiography has been performed on all patients after classic cholecystostomy in the absence of indicat...

Background and Aims: We compared the clinical outcomes between double tract cholecystostomy combined with choledochoscope for cholecystolithotomy and laparoscopic-choledochoscopy-assisted removal of cholecystolithotomy (LRCL) after cholecystostomy in high risk patient. Methods: 19 cases of cholecystolithotomy and 20 cases of LRCL were collected in Chengdu Military General Hospital from January ...

Carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder is a rare malignancy characterized by malignant epithelial and mesenchymal components. We herein report a case of a patient in a 68-year-old woman, with carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder. The patient is treated by cholecystostomy. Histologically, the epithelial component of the tumor was composed of adenocarcinoma and the mesenchymal component with spindle cell...