SAGES guidelines for the clinical application of laparoscopic biliary tract surgery

  • D. Wayne Overby Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Keith N. Apelgren Department of Surgery, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA
  • William Richardson Department of Surgery, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Jefferson, LA, USA
  • Robert Fanelli R. Fanelli (&) Pittsfield, MA, USA

Abstract

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the standard of care for patients requiring removal of the gallbladder. In 1992, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus development conference concluded that ‘‘laparoscopic cholecystectomy provides a safe and effective treatment for most patients with symptomatic gallstones, laparoscopic cholecystectomy appears to have become the procedure of choice for many of these patients’’ [1].

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) first offered guidelines for the clinical application of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in May 1990. These guidelines have peri- odically been updated, and the last guideline in November 2002 expanded the guidelines to include all laparoscopic biliary tract surgery.

This document updates and replaces the previous guideline.

The current recommendations are graded and linked to the evidence utilizing the definitions in Appendices 1 and 2. 

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Published
2011-12-30
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OVERBY, D. Wayne et al. SAGES guidelines for the clinical application of laparoscopic biliary tract surgery. Revista Portuguesa de Cirurgia, [S.l.], n. 19, p. 35-57, dec. 2011. ISSN 2183-1165. Available at: <https://revista.spcir.com/index.php/spcir/article/view/64>. Date accessed: 26 apr. 2024.
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No 19 (2011): Dezembro 2011 - II Série
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CADERNO ESPECIAL – 20 ANOS DE LAPAROSCOPIA BILIAR EM PORTUGAL
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