New Scoring System for Prediction of Surgical Difficulty During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy After Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Drainage.
Michinori MatsumotoKyohei AbeYasuro FutagawaKenei FurukawaKoichiro HarukiShinji OndaTakanori KurogochiNana TakeuchiTomoyoshi OkamotoToru IkegamiPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2021)
The SS using time until PTGBD after symptom onset and gallbladder wall thickness for predicting the need for the bailout procedure correctly predicted the need. The scores might be associated with the risk of BDI, and LSC or OC might be a better choice for score-2 patients.