Report on Pediatric Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of General Pediatric Surgeon, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

2 Associate Professor of General Pediatric Surgeon, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of General Pediatric Surgeon, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

4 Assistant professor of Pediatric, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

5 General Physician, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Introduction
Cholelithiasis (gallstone disease) is not frequent in children. However, in recent years reported cases have been increased by the use of ultrasound examination. Nowadays, gold standard treatment, specially in children, is laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Although this method has been done in other countries as a routine since some years ago, but according to our knowledge, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has not been common in children in Iran until now.
Case report
In period of 2 years (2007-2009) we had 20 cases of cholelithiasis and did laparascopic cholecystectomy on 5 of them, the results of operation on them were presented.
Conclusion
 Although these cases were our first experience, by the perfect results we think would not need to do open cholecystectomy in future, except in rare cases.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 56, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
March and April 2013
Pages 62-65

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