Quality-of-Life Assessment of Surgical Reconstruction After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy–Induced Bile Duct Injuries

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Abstract
Since it was introduced in the early 1990s, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the preferred approach in patients with symptomatic gallbladder disease. As the surgical community has gained wide experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the technique has become integrated into the curriculum of graduate surgical education, the incidence of major bile duct injury has plateaued at 0.4% to 0.6%.1-3 Given that more than 700 000 cholecystomies are performed annually,4 clearly hepatobiliary surgeons will continue not infrequently to perform biliary reconstruction for laparoscopic cholecystectomy–induced bile duct injury.