Lifeng Shang, Xin Shen, Wenkai Niu, Yi Zhang, Junwei Han, Haiwang Liu, Lei Liu, Xinli Chen, Yiyue Zhang, Shi Hai
Cholecystectomy remains the "gold standard" for the management of symptomatic gallstones. Minimally invasive laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been the treatment of choice for the past 3 decades. However, the technique of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery cholecystolithotomy is evolving, with some experts advocating gallbladder stone removal without gallbladder excision in order to preserve gallbladder function and eliminate post-cholecystectomy syndromes, including complications of the surgical incision, bile duct injury, functional gastrointestinal, and psychological conditions, and possibly an increase in colon cancer...
November 18, 2022: Medicine (Baltimore)