[Experience with 1000 ERCPs in a surgery department].

In 1988-1994 at the Second Surgical Clinic of the Masaryk University in Brno and at the Surgical Department of the Hospital of the Merciful Brethren in Valtice a total of 1037 diagnostic and therapeutic operations of the papilla of Vater were performed. Eventually after practice was assembled, the rate of successful operations was 94-99%. The authors emphasize the necessity to introduce endoscopic methods into the common practice of surgical departments; they emphasize the necessity of high-standard training of doctors and nurses. As compared with data from the literature and from other departments, the morbidity and mortality rate recorded by the authors was substantially lower.