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Table 4 Interventions during one year prior to index (cholecystectomy) stay, no = 43072.

From: Cholecystectomy in Sweden 2000 – 2003: a nationwide study on procedures, patient characteristics, and mortality

Interventions

Open cholecystectomy

n = 11928

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

n = 31144

 

Procedure

Patients

%

Patients

%

p-values

Sphincterotomy

510*

4.3

782**

2.5

< 0.001

Other open procedures

36

0.3

22

0.1

< 0.001

Other laparoscopic procedures

4

0.0

2

0.0

0.094

Other endoscopic procedures

414

3.5

497

1.6

< 0.001

Percutaneous procedures

15

0.1

3

0.0

< 0.001

  1. * including 20 patients with sphincterotomy more than once
  2. ** including 15 patients with sphincterotomy more than once