Table 1.

Comparisons of early and delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis

Author	Number of patients	Conversion rate of early LC	Conversion rate of delayed LC	Postoperative complications of early LC	Length of Postoperative complications of delayed LC	Length of hospital stay (days) Early surgery	hospital stay (days) Delayed surgery
Lo et al.5	86	11%	23%	13%	29%	6	11
Lai et al.6	91	21%	24%	9%	8%	7.6	11.6
Chandler et al.7	43	24%	36%	4%	9%	5.4	7.1
Johansson et al.15	143	31%	29%	18%	10%	5	8

LC, laparoscopic cholecystectomy; conversion rate, conversion rate to open surgery