[Endosonographic diagnostics of hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases].

Clinical use of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) diagnostics of 550 patients with diseases of hepatobiliary and pancreas was analyzed. The procedure of the examination was thoroughly described. Ultrasound semiotics of the pancreas, papilla Vateri and bile ducts' lesions was defined.

[Laparoscopic procedures in focal lesions of the liver].

Seventy-three laparoscopic procedures were performed for the treatment of focal lesions of the liver. Fifty-four patients had operations for non-parasitic cysts of the liver and cystic disease. Polycystic disease of the liver was in 8 patients.

[Antegrade papillosphincterotomy in laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

Stenotic lesions of the distal part of the common bile duct are often revealed in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. From 1997 intraoperative antegrade papillosphincterotomy (APST) has been introduced in clinical practice of the endoscopic department of the A.V.