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CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
CUREUS INC
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.11500
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cholecystectomy; covid-19; minilaparotomy
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COVID-19 has required changes in the practice of surgery to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. Proposed mitigation strategies include avoidance of aerosol-generating procedures such as laparoscopy. We report two cases where minilaparotomy cholecystectomy was employed to treat benign biliary disease during the pandemic. A review of the literature supports the use of this surgical technique during the COVID-19 pandemic until laparoscopy can be proven to be safe.
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