Abstract:Background:Recently, the incidence of gallbladder disease is` increasing and particularly, the number of people who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has increased in extremely elderly patients, older than 80 years. The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of LC in extremely elderly patients Methods: We retrospectively reviewed a total of 476 elderly (more than 70 years) patients who underwent LC between 2017 and 2021. Perioperative data were compared between octogenarian (… Show more
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