Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...

Surgical removal of the gallbladder, cholecystectomy ... This minimally invasive procedure involves a surgeon making small ...

Over the past few years, open surgery for gallbladder removal has been largely replaced by laparoscopic techniques. In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons create four small incisions to insert a camera ...

According to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals a woman's gall bladder was successfully removed by French surgeons through her vagina.