Abstract

1. Abstract
1.1. Background
With the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Scientific societies recommended the postponement of optional surgeries to increase the bed capacity of the Intensive Care Unit. We designed a retrospective case-control study in a single center comparing the data collected from April to October 2019 comparing them with those collected from April to October 2020 relating to patients undergoing VLS or open cholecystectomy for benign disease to see if there was a difference statistically significant in the severity of the clinical presentation, in the length of hospitalization, in the duration of surgery.