Research progress of intramural gallstone / 国际外科学杂志

Intramural gallstone is a special kind of gallstone and the mechanism may be related with increasing pressure in gallbladder lumen,inflammation of gallbladder and the formation of Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses in the gallbladder wall.There is a close relationship between intramural gallstone and lumen stone.Intramural gallstone provides a new challenge to cholecystolithotomy with gallbladder preservation.But study on intramural gallstone may also offer a new idea for the mechanism of gallstone formation.