Advantages of Modern Biliary Surgery
Huang Gang
After in-depth research, it was found that the gallbladder has certain functions and should not be easily removed.
However, traditional biliary stone extraction surgery is not easily accepted by doctors and its promotion is limited due to the technique of surgeons, surgical instruments and equipment, which leads to incomplete stone extraction, great damage to gallbladder mucosa, easy recurrence of stones and so on.
Modern biliary lithotripsy has overcome these shortcomings. The use of finer fiberoptic choledochoscope, smaller straight choledochoscope, biliary lithotripter, etc., together with the improvement of surgeon’s technical level, make biliary lithotripsy easier and the recurrence rate of stones is greatly reduced, which is now widely promoted. Huang Gang, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Most patients with gallbladder stones and gallbladder polyps do not need to have their gallbladder removed and can remain healthy.
Preserving the gallbladder can reduce the occurrence of colon cancer.