ABSTRACT
Objective To study the ways and effect of surgical treatment for recurrent hepatolithiasis. Methods The therapeutic patterns and the clinical effect were retrospectively analyzed for 163 patiens8 with recurrent hepatolithiasis from January 2004 to December 2006.The 86 patients were partical hepatectomy, the 77 patients were no hepatectomy. Results The excellent rate was 96.5%,the incidence of residual stone and recurrence was 5.8%and 1.2%respectively in partical hepatectomy-but 85.7%,15.6% and 11.7%in no hepatectomy. There were statistical significance between the partical hepatectomy and no hepatectomy(P＜0.05).Conclusion The therapeutic effect of the partial hepatectomy is better than that of the nohepatectomy for the patients with gallstone.