Clinical Application of Primary Suture Following Three-Port Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration: A Report of 176 Cases
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53195#.VLciWsnQrzE Author(s) Shengze Li 1 , Huihua Cai 2* , Donglin Sun 2 , Xuemin Chen 2 , Shengyong Liu 2 , Xinquan Wu 2 , Yong An 2 , Jing Chen 2 , Chun Yang 2 , Yaping Sun 2 , Xiaoyan Lu 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of General Surgery, The Third People’s Hospital of Jiangyin, Wuxi, China . 2 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Changzhou, The 3th Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China . ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the feasibility, safety and the clinical value of primary suture following 3-port laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE). Methods: From January 2012 to September 2014, 176 patients suffered from choledocholithiasis were treated with primary suture following 3-port LCBDE and the clinical data were retrospectively analyzed. Results: All cases were operated successfully and none was ...