[Gallstones, current surgical advances].

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.