Gallbladder ostomy

Cholecystostomy is a relatively simple emergency operation, the purpose is to drain bile, reduce bile pressure, eliminate bile duct inflammation, severely tolerated patients with severe cholecystitis or gallstone disease who must be drained in time to relieve obstruction, It can save lives, improve the whole body and local conditions, and lay the foundation for another operation. This surgery can only work if there is no obstruction of the gallbladder and common hepatic ducts. Nowadays, because of the possibility of one-stage cholecystectomy and the use of gallbladder puncture catheter drainage in most patients, this operation has been rarely used.

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