Optimizing the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy by clipping and transecting the cystic artery before the cystic duct

Wijsmuller, A. R.
Leegwater, M.
Tseng, L.
Smaal, H. J.
Kleinrensink, G. J.
Lange, J. F.

¹Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
²Department of Surgery, Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda, The Netherlands
³Department of Neurosciences, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
⁴Lowlands Institute of Surgical and Applied Anatomy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Correspondence J. F. Lange, Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands [email protected].

Paper accepted December 21, 2006

British Journal of Surgery 94(4):p 473-474, April 2007.