TABLE I.

CLINICAL PRESENTATION

Patient No.	Age, y	Sex	Recognition at LC	Conversion to open	Onset of symptoms, d	Symptoms and signs	Operative treatment before referral and days after LC	Referral after LC, d
1	42	M	No	No	3	Bile peritonitis	None	10
2	27	F	No	No	3	Bile peritonitis	None	14
3	61	M	No	No	1	Bile leak through drain	None	6
4	26	F	No	No	14	Bile peritonitis	Laparotomy, 20	24
5	73	M	No	No	21	Recurrent cholangitis	None	225
6	60	F	No	No	10	Jaundice, fever, bile peritonitis	None	16
7	73	F	Yes?	Yes	1	GOT 6,798, GPT 4,916	Hepaticojejunostomy, 0	5
8	67	M	No	No	2	Bile leak through drain, jaundice	None	2
9	37	F	No	No	14	Cholangitis, jaundice	Hepaticojejunostomy, 14	17
10	36	F	Yes?	Yes	6	Jaundice, fever, bile peritonitis	Laparotomy, stent, duct-to-duct, 6	8
11	46	M	Yes	Yes	—	—	T-tube, duct-to-duct* right hepatic artery repair, 0	0
12	42	F	No	No	1	Bleeding	None	1
13	33	F	Yes	Yes	—	—	None	0
14	80	M	No	No	90	Jaundice	None	120
15	34	F	No	No	14	Bile peritonitis, fever, subhepatic abscess	None	27

^*Duct-to-duct, end-to-end choledocho-choledochostomy.

LC, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; GOT, glutamine-oxaloacetic transaminase; GPT, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; y, year, and d, day.