NCT01378819

3-midline-ports Cholecystectomy

Three Ports Placed in the Line Alba of the Abdomen (3-midline-ports Technique): an Alternative Approach for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The 3-midline-ports technique is a safety approach and associates lower postoperative pain, when compared with the standard "French" technique.

Detailed description

The patients will be randomized into 2 groups: those patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy following the "French" technique (Group 1) and those ones undergoing the 3-midline-ports approach (Group 2).

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	3-midline-ports laparoscopic cholecystectomy	The laparoscopic cholecystectomy will be performed through 3 ports placed in the line alba.
PROCEDURE	3-midline-ports laparoscopic cholecystectomy	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy will be performed through 3 ports placed in the line alba.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-22
• Last updated: 2011-06-22