A Scoring System to Predict Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Five-Year Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Preoperative characteristics of the study patients.

Patient characteristics	n (%) n = 134
Age (years)
≤50; >50	80 (60%); 54 (40%)
Gender
Male; Female	40 (30%); 94 (70%)
History of hospitalization for acute cholecystitis
Yes; No	58 (43%); 76 (57%)
Body mass index (kg/m^2)
<25; 25–27.5; >27.5	103 (77%); 28 (21%); 3 (2%)
Abdominal scar
No; Infraumbilical; Supraumbilical	127 (95%); 7 (5%); 0
Palpable gallbladder
Yes; No	115 (86%); 19 (14%)
Sonographic: wall thickness
Thin ≤4 mm; Thick ≥4 mm	74 (55%); 60 (45%)
Laboratory: leucocyte
<10.000/ul; ≥10.000/ul	72 (54%); 62 (46%)