Gallstones, current surgical advances
Huyghe, J.; Huyghe, M.
Verhandelingen - Koninklijke Academie Voor Geneeskunde van Belgie 53(6) 575-585; Discussion: 585-587
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0302-6469 PMID: 1840087 Document Number: 371775
A short survey of the recent advances in the treatment of gallstones is followed by a video-report of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy: the last acquisition in surgical practice. Since the excellent results the authors prefer the endoscopic way to the open cholecystectomy in the treatment of non-complicated symptomatic gallstone disease. This procedure can be considered as the "first choice", so far as indications are severed, and operation is performed by a surgeon credentialed in general biliary surgery.