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Cholecystectomy without drainage: a dilemma? 1980

U Baraldi, and G Macellari, and P David

A retrospective study was carried out to show the uselessness of routine drainage after simple cholecystectomy. Cholecystectomy was performed in 1,425 patients with cholelithiasis; 164 (13 percent) were drained because of adhesions, concomitant pancreatitis, inadvertent injury, gangrene, empyema and perforation of the gallbladder. None of the complications for which the use of drainage after simple cholecystectomy is commonly advised were observed in any of the 1,261 patients without drainage.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D002763	Cholecystectomy	Surgical removal of the GALLBLADDER.	Cholecystectomies
D002769	Cholelithiasis	Presence or formation of GALLSTONES in the BILIARY TRACT, usually in the gallbladder (CHOLECYSTOLITHIASIS) or the common bile duct (CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS).	Gallstone Disease,Cholelithiases,Gallstone Diseases
D004322	Drainage	The removal of fluids or discharges from the body, such as from a wound, sore, or cavity.
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012189	Retrospective Studies	Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.	Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective