Surgical treatment of patients with purulent cholangitis in cholelithiasis

: Results of treatment of 89 patients with cholelithiasis complicated by obstructive jaundice and purulent cholangitis using the minimally invasive technologies are analyzed. The advantages of two-stages surgical treatment of these patients are demonstrated. The decompression of biliary tract are performed as the first stage, radical operations by laparoscopy or minilaparotomy--as the second stage. This method permits to refuse the large and traumatic operations and to improve significantly the nearest and long-term results of treatment.