The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

LC has overtaken open cholecystectomy as one of the safest and most effective procedures in general surgery since it was recognized as the standard of care in 1992, 4 years after Phillipe Mouret ...

The authors conducted a literature review aimed at determining the frequency of adverse events in patients undergoing single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Literature reports with 20 or more ...

Surgery is the most effective treatment for gallstones. Nonsurgical treatments are options if surgery is too risky. Healthy ...

Most people don’t even know they have gallstones (stones) – pebble-like objects made from bile material that most of the time ...