Tokyo Guidelines 2018: surgical management of acute cholecystitis: safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (with videos)

Wakabayashi, Go; Iwashita, Yukio; Hibi, Taizo; Takada, Tadahiro; M. Strasberg, Steven; J. Asbun, Horacio; Endo, Itaru; Umezawa, Akiko; Asai, Koji; Suzuki, Kenji; Mori, Yasuhisa; Okamoto, Kohji; A. Pitt, Henry; Han, Ho‐Seong; Hwang, Tsann‐Long; Yoon, Yoo‐Seok; Sup Yoon, Dong; Choi, In‐Seok; Shih‐Wei Huang, Wayne; Giménez, Mariano; James Garden, O.; J. Gouma, Dirk; Belli, Giulio; Dervenis, Christos; Jagannath, P.; C. W. Chan, Angus; Yee Lau, Wan; Liu, Keng‐Hao; Su, Cheng‐Hsi; Misawa, Takeyuki; Nakamura, Masafumi; Horiguchi, Akihiko; Tagaya, Nobumi; Fujioka, Shuichi; Higuchi, Ryota; Shikata, Satoru; Noguchi, Yoshinori; Ukai, Tomohiko; Yokoe, Masamichi; Cherqui, Daniel; Honda, Goro; Sugioka, Atsushi; de Santibáñes, Eduardo; Supe, Avinash; Tokumura, Hiromi; Kimura, Taizo; Yoshida, Masahiro; Mayumi, Toshihiko; Kitano, Seigo; Inomata, Masafumi; Hirata, Koichi; Sumiyama, Yoshinobu; Inui, Kazuo; Yamamoto, Masakazu

doi:10.1002/jhbp.517

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Tokyo Guidelines 2018: surgical management of acute cholecystitis: safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (with videos)

Published in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences • Nov 2, 2017

Authors:

Go Wakabayashi

Yukio Iwashita

Taizo Hibi

Abstract

In some cases, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) may be difficult to perform in patients with acute cholecystitis (AC) with severe inflammation and fibrosis. The Tokyo Guidelines 2018 (TG18) expand the indications for LC under difficult conditions for each level of severity of AC. As a result of exp...

Subject

Medicine

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Acute cholecystitis

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