Definition of Cholecystotomy. Meaning of Cholecystotomy. Synonyms of Cholecystotomy

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Definition of Cholecystotomy

Cholecystotomy
Cholecystotomy Chol`e*cys*tot"o*my, n. [Cholecystis + Gr. ? to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

Meaning of Cholecystotomy from wikipedia

- Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder. Cholecystectomy is a common treatment of symptomatic gallstones and other gallbladder conditions...
- anti****ted by French-born English surgeon Claudius Amyand in 1735. First cholecystotomy (gallbladder surgery). Asepsis in lieu of Lister's antisepsis; he avoided...
- was a medical pioneer, and in 1867 he performed the first successful cholecystotomy for the removal gallstones. Bobbs was the founder of Indiana Medical...
- biliary fistula. Stough Hobbs in 1867 performed the first recorded cholecystotomy, although such an operation was in fact described earlier by French...
- Cholecystostomy or (cholecystotomy) is a medical procedure used to drain the gallbladder through either a percutaneous or endoscopic approach. The procedure...
- performed one of the first gallbladder operations in the United States, a cholecystotomy performed on his mother on the kitchen table at 2 am in which he removed...
- operations on liver (51) Operations on gallbladder and biliary tract (51.0) Cholecystotomy and cholecystostomy (51.1) Diagnostic procedures on biliary tract (51...