Quality-of-life measures after single-access versus conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective randomized study

Abstract

This study supports other studies that show that SALC is a feasible and promising alternative to traditional laparoscopic cholecystectomy in selected patients with better cosmesis, QOL, and improved postoperative pain results, and it can be performed with the existing laparoscopic instruments.

Quality of life after single-port laparoscopic surgery versus conventional laparoscopic surgery for benign gynecologic disease

“…Almost all of these studies concluded that there is no difference between SP-LS and conventional LS in the QoL. Just a few studies suggested that SP-LS improves the QoL at an immediate postoperative state (B1 week) [9,12]. Our results are consistent with these findings.…”

“…There are several reports on the QoL effect of SP-LS for appendectomy or cholecystectomy in general surgery [9][10][11][12][13]. Almost all of these studies concluded that there is no difference between SP-LS and conventional LS in the QoL.…”

Patient preference matters: cholecystectomy for uncomplicated gallbladder diseases should be performed by single port laparoscopy

“…It has been argued against single port laparoscopy that there could be a higher rate of incisional hernia. [26][27][28][29][30][31] We did not find any such difference, and we actually believe that it is easier to close the fascial wound after single port laparoscopy because the larger skin incision facilitates the closing. Longer follow-up time should in any case be employed to re-evaluate whether incisional hernia rates continue to be equal in both groups.…”

The real-world application of single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy

“…Aprea et al reported that SILC and CLC patients were not different in severity of postoperative pain [9]. Also, Ma et al claim that SILC procedures are longer, associated with more postoperative complications and pain, and are not superior in QOL compared to CLC procedures [14,15].…”