With the acquired experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy, videosurgery has been used more and more for treatment of other diseases. Since the first surgery, nearly 15 years ago, the authors evaluate the outcome and the perspectives of this procedure in pancreatic-billiary diseases. They followed the proposition which divides these procedures in routine procedures, in evaluation and in development. In gallbladder diseases the laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered gold-standard, taking advantage upon open cholecystectomy, excluding bile duct injury and cystic stump leakage. They emphasize the aspects related to acute cholecystitis, cholecystectomy during pregnancy, calcified gallbladder and cancer. The laparoscopic cholecystectomy during pregnancy is considered as a procedure in evaluation. Long term effects of pneumoperitonium on foetus are not well known. The approach in calcified gallbladder, because the high incidence of adenocarcinoma, remains questionable. Perspectives of videosurgery in complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are commented. Cystic stump leakage, misplaced clips and partial section or laceration of main biliary tract could be treated by new videosurgery in selected situations. In the treatment of choledocolithiasis, they consider the procedure as one for evaluation, due to the lack of randomized prospective trials. Until now, videocholedocolitotomy is reserved to specialized centers. In pancreatic diseases, videosurgery is a procedure in development, except for the non-complicated acute biliary pancreatitis, in which benefits with laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been shown. The same occurs with diversion surgeries for desobstruction of the biliary tree. Although performed within the conventional surgery principles there is a lack of comparative studies with other techniques analysing efficacy and efficiency.
Videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy; Videosurgery; Videocholedocolithotomy; Biliary tract; Pancreas