[External and internal drainage in the surgery of inflammatory diseases of the gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts].

Of the 586 patients operated on for acute and chronic calculous cholecystitis, postcholecystectomy syndrome, 304 (51.8%) had external or internal drainage of the bile ducts been performed. External drainage was employed in 251, transduodenal papillosphincterotomy--in 87 patients, biliodigestive anastomosis was created in 52.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy in surgical practice].

The results of laparoscopy in 1,000 patients with various diseases are analysed. The indications for laparoscopy in different groups of patients are shown. Various laparoscopic operations were carried out on 789 patients.