Abstract

Cholecystectomy is the most common elective procedure performed on the biliary tract and the second most common abdominal operation performed today. With more and more endeavors being made in the field of laparoscopy, more and more complicated cases which were relatively contraindicated a few years ago are now being tackled laparoscopically.Inspite of increasing expertise and advances in technology,conversion rate is still 1.5 to 35% in different centers. This conversion is neither a failure nor a complication,but an attempt to avoid complications. So the identification of parameters predicting conversion would be useful to improve preoperative patient counseling, provide for better perioperative planning, optimize operating room efficiency, and to avoid laparoscopic- associated cost & complications by performing an open operation when appropriate.

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