[Tool diagnostics of the mechanical jaundice]

The purpose the present work was the analysis of efficiency of new technologies and mini-invasive interventions in diagnostics of a mechanical jaundice. The issue of duly rational diagnostics of mechanical jaundice remains one of the most difficult and in many respects unresolved problems in abdominal surgery. The certain achievements noted during the last decades in diagnostics of mechanical jaundice are connected with active introduction into the wide clinical practice of new or improved methods of diagnostics, application of modern mini-invasive technologies - ultrasound, endoscopic, MRI, CT and others, and also their combinations.