Efficacy of releasing impacted gallstones after percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis and consideration of the surgical difficulty during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Atsuro FujinagaYukio IwashitaKazuhiro TadaKiminori WatanabeTakahide KawasakiTakashi MasudaTeijiro HirashitaYuichi EndoMasayuki OhtaMasafumi InomataPublished in: Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences (2020)
Releasing an IG may reduce surgical difficulty and maintain surgical safety. DS can be useful in predicting surgical outcomes.