Cholecystectomy

n. surgical removal of the gall bladder (Medicine)

Cholecystectomy (, plural: cholecystectomies,) is the surgical removal of the gallbladder. Despite the development of non-surgical techniques, it is the most common method for treating symptomatic gallstones, although there are other reasons for having this surgery done. Each year more than 500,000 Americans have gallbladder surgery. Surgery options include the standard procedure, called laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and an older more invasive procedure, called open cholecystectomy. A cholecystectomy is performed when attempts to treat gallstones with ultrasound to shatter the stones or medications to dissolve them have not proven feasible.
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A cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder. The two basic types of this procedure are open [more]Cholecystectomy - Community and Resources

Noun
1. surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain)
(hypernym) ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
(hyponym) laparoscopic cholecystectomy, lap choly

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Some patients continue to complain of right hypochondrial pain, flatulence, indigestion and intolerance to fatty food after cholecystectomy, despite a normal radiological appearance of the biliary tree. In vast majority of these patients the origional diagnosis was incorrect and the patients was suffering from functional bowl disease, the gallstones being an incidental finding. The occurance of severe pain with jaundice or abnormal liver biochemistry suggests a retained stone in the common bile duct and this can usually be confirmed by ultrasound.
Pain has been attributed to dysfunction of the sphinter of Oddi, but, even with manometry, this is defficult to substantiate, and sphinterotomy is not usually justified.