Biliary Duct Injuries Due to Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: 7-Year Experience at Shahid Modarres Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Nowadays, cholecystectomy is the most prevalent elective abdominal surgery in the U.S., with over 750000 operations performed every year. However, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been reported with 1% to 8% of major complications, including hemorrhage, wound infection, bile ducts and gallbladder damage.
A total of 1970 medical records of patients undergone laparoscopically at Modarres Hospital between 2010 and 2017 were studied in this research. Of them 1185 were female (60.15%) and 785(39.85%) male. A total of 1003(50.9%) patients were presented with cholecystitis, 955(48.5%) with symptomatic cholelithiasis, and 12(0.6%) with polyp.
Biliary tract injury was reported in 11 cases, complete cut off of Common Bile Duct (CBD) in 4(0.2%) cases (3 males and 1 female), partial CBD injuries in 3 cases (2 males and 1 female), complete closure of CBD in 1 female case, and partially closure of CBD by clips in 3(0.1%) cases (1 male and 2 female).
The laparoscopic method seems to be the ideal method of cholecystectomy, not just because of its cosmetic reasons, also due to its less invasive procedure.