Abstract

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard operative procedure for treating cholelithiasis. The incidence of laparoscopic complications is 1.1% to 5.2% in minor procedures and 2.5% to 6% in major ones. We retrospectively analyzed the data of 1112 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy during the period between January 2002 and January 2014 in Departments of Surgery in Aden General Hospital, Saber and Alwaly private hospitals in Aden city. Of the 1112 patients in whom laparoscopic cholecystectomy was attempted, 62 (5.6%) required conversion to open cholecystectomy. The most common intraoperative complications are adhesions (8.9%) and inflammation (6%). Postoperative complications were developed in 137 patients (12.3%). There are many cases of symptomatic gallstones with anatomic or pathologic considerations that prevent the laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and need to convert to laparotomy.