Modern aspects of surgical treatment of choledocholithiasis

Today, there are a huge number of invasive treatments for choledocholithiasis, but there is no universal treatment that combines the advantages of mini- mally invasive endoscopic methods and laparotomy. With the accumulation of experience in laparoscopic operations, the advantages of an endovideoscopic method for the resolution of choledocholithiasis are increasingly convincing. The article contains descriptions of the currently available methods for resolving choledocholi- thiasis and the therapeutic algorithm for endovideososcopic treatment of choledocholithiasis developed by us.