Laparoscopic cholecystectomy after open cholecystostomy for gallbladder empyema: a case report.

The case of a patient with gallbladder empyema initially drained through a minilaparotomy procedure under local anesthesia with a tube cholecystostomy is reported in this paper. Eight weeks later, the patient underwent an elective interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy. At laparoscopy, the gallbladder and the cholecystostomy tube were dissected free from the abdominal wall and the greater omentum, which was attached to the gallbladder. The tube was removed from the gallbladder fundus, and the operation was completed laparoscopically without any major problems.