Treatment of bile duct injuries at our department

Introduction: The conversion rate during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is between 3 and 5% according to the data in the literature. The incidence of bile duct injury during LC is around 0.5%. This data is still much higher than that of after open cholecystectomy (0.1%). Patients: We performed 281 laparoscopic cholecystectomies in 2008 and converted 11 cases (3.8%). We did not have any bile duct injuries during laparoscopic procedures. In one of the converted cases we realized that the gall bladder penetrated to the common bile duct. We had to resect the affected part of the duct to restore the continuity of the b…