By George Ochoa
In a head-to-head comparison, patients undergoing single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy had a significantly higher rate of hernia formation at one-year follow-up than those having standard four-port laparoscopy.
Only one of 81 patients who received standard laparoscopy developed a hernia (1.2%) versus 10 of 119 patients (8.4%) who underwent the single-incision procedure (P=0.03).
“I was somewhat surprised by the results,” the study’s lead author, Jeffrey