Research Article
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in the Elderly: An Experience at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Nepal
Table 2
Indications for laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
| | Clinical and pathological diagnosis | Elderly
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| | Biliary colic | 35 (44.9) | 91 (55.5) | 0.874 | | Chronic calculous cholecystitis | 20 (25.6) | 40 (24.4) | | Acute calculous cholecystitis | 5 (6.4) | 8 (4.9) | | Mucocele of gallbladder | 6 (7.7) | 7 (4.3) | | Empyema gallbladder | 4 (5.1) | 6 (3.7) | | Acute biliary pancreatitis | 3 (3.8) | 5 (3.0) | | Polyp with gallstone | 2 (2.6) | 4 (2.4) | | Carcinoma gallbladder | 2 (2.6) | 2 (1.2) | | Acute acalculous cholecystitis | 1 (1.3) | 1 (0.6) |
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