[Rational chemotherapy of suppurative cholangitis].

A complex bacteriological approach to the problem of purulent cholangitis was applied. Specimens of bile from 140 patients, gallbladder walls from 106 patients, liver tissue from 93 patients and peritoneum tissue from 82 patients were examined. It was microbiologically shown that the infectious process in the patients with purulent cholangitis involved not only the bile and gallbladder walls but also the surrounding tissues of the liver and peritoneum.