What is gallstones about? Gallstone disease, also known as cholelithiasis, is often referred to as the most common disease of the biliary system, including gallbladder stones, common bile duct stones, and intrahepatic bile ducts. Symptoms of gallstones onset usually manifest as pain in the upper abdomen that radiates to the shoulders and back, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and jaundice. These symptoms are often mistaken for stomach problems because they are similar to those of gastrointestinal and liver diseases. What are the disadvantages of removing the gallbladder? The gallbladder is the place in the human body where bile is concentrated and stored. In the past, the traditional belief was that although the gallbladder had many functions, there was no better way to treat gallbladder stones than to remove the gallbladder. Modern medicine has found that the gallbladder has many important physiological functions, such as storage function, contraction function, concentration function, secretion function, immune function, which has an important influence on the digestive function, and has an important role in regulating the biliary fluid pressure. Furthermore, patients can not rest easy after cholecystectomy because the removal of the gallbladder can cause a series of adverse effects, including dyspepsia, reflux of digestive juices, reflux gastritis, reflux esophagitis, increased incidence of choledocholithiasis, increased bile duct injury, increased incidence of colorectal cancer, post-cholecystectomy psychological disorders, post-cholecystectomy syndrome, and post-cholecystectomy psychological disorders. , post cholecystectomy syndrome, etc. “Endoscopic minimally invasive choledochotomy can easily remove stones and protect the gallbladder. In recent years, with the development of medical theories and medical devices, choledochoscopy has been widely used in clinical practice, and a new minimally invasive technique – preserving the gallbladder and removing stones – has been developed to remove stones from the gallbladder and to preserve the gallbladder. -The method of preserving the gallbladder and removing stones and polyps has emerged. This minimally invasive surgery can replace the traditional more traumatic surgery, without removing the gallbladder. The stones or polyps in the gallbladder can be removed without removing the gallbladder, and satisfactory results can be achieved. Operation of minimally invasive biliary lithotripsy Biliary lithotripsy is a minimally invasive surgery, which is a product of the combination of modern high-tech and traditional surgical techniques. It avoids all the injuries and discomforts associated with traditional open surgical incisions. During the operation, experts use a small incision of about 2 cm to clearly cut through the patient’s gallbladder under the direct vision of a choledochoscope, insert a special basket for removing stones, and remove all the stones one by one. After a thorough examination without a single stone remaining, the gallbladder incision is then sutured, leaving the gallbladder intact. Biliary lithotripsy has a quick recovery and little trauma, you can go down to the ground and eat 1 day after the operation, and you can be discharged from the hospital in 3-5 days, which does not affect the normal work and life of gallstones patients.