Thermal Damage of the Main Bile Ducts During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis

Nadim Al-Hajjar, Sergiu Duca, Liviu Vlad, Alin Vasilescu

3rd Surgical Clinic, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca

Abstract

The authors report the case of a female patient aged 30 years admitted with the clinical symptomatology of acute cholecystitis confirmed by paraclinical tests. Laparoscopy was performed and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) was applied.
Postoperatively the course was unfavorable from the clinical and ultrasonographical point of view and intra-abdominal bile collection was suspected. The patient was reoperated. An injury was found on the right hepatic duct and this was corrected by suture on Kehr tube. The postoperative course was favorable and the patient was discharged from the hospital in a surgically healed condition.

Key words

Thermal damage - bile ducts - laparoscopic cholecystectomy - acute cholecystitis