147 patients with tumors of proximal extrahepatic biliary ducts were treated. By 118 patients only palliative surgery was possible. Tumor recanalisation and external biliary drainage was performed on 77 patients; 41 patients received transcutaneous transhepatic cholangiostomy as final treatment; endoprosthesis was inserted in 11 patients. Radical and conditionally radical surgical resections were performed in 29 patients: cholecystectomy, common bile duct resection and hepaticojejunostomy was made in 18 patients. The rest 11 had cholecystectomy, liver resection and bi-hepatic jejuno-anastomosis. Postoperative lethality was 10.2%.
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