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We hereby describe our experience and outcomes of patients with difficult LC over the last two decades, with various bailout strategies to achieve a very low conversion rate and bile duct injury rate.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Patients and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study was a retrospective analysis of patients labelled as difficult LC in a single surgical unit at a tertiary care teaching hospital from January 2004 to December 2020. The pre-operative, peri-operative and follow-up data of all these patients were obtained from a prospectively maintained electronic database.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Between January 2004 and December 2020, 3726 patients underwent elective LC, of which 649 (17.4%) cholecystectomies were deemed difficult. Using the various bailout strategies, we were able to achieve a conversion rate of 4.9% and bile duct injury rate of 0.1% with an overall morbidity of 8%.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>When a difficult situation occurs, the benefit of removing the complete gall bladder is outweighed by the risk of a major injury, so a bailout strategy needs to be used. The present series reiterates the use of bailout strategies to not only decrease conversion but also achieve a minimal BDI rate.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jmas.jmas_163_25","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,22]],"date-time":"2025-07-22T14:25:02Z","timestamp":1753194302000},"page":"384-388","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Outcomes of various bailout strategies for managing different categories of difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy \u2013 An experience of over two decades from a single surgical unit at a tertiary care teaching hospital"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Asuri","family":"Krishna","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sanjeet 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