Digestive tract reconstruction had already begun in 1881 when Theodor Billroth successfully carried out the first gastric resection with Billroth I anastomosis in Vienna.
More than 100 years have passed!
For surgical procedures, this is already a sufficiently long period of development.
However, a long time does not mean rapid development.
In any field, there's a peculiar rule: "Things that are easy to start often become difficult to improve."
Digestive surgery is a classic example.
For all time, surgeons around the world have been "keen on resection and light on reconstruction."
But in recent years, everyone has truly realized: digestive tract reconstruction is the most critical link in digestive surgery!
However, the concept of "digestive tract reconstruction" was not truly established in China until 2008 when it formed an expert consensus.
Developed to now, most county hospitals in China can perform gastric resection, biliary surgery, and other digestive tract operations.
