[Palliative treatment of nonresectable pancreatic cancer complicated by obturation jaundice]

There are presented the results of palliative treatment of 411 patients, suffering pancreatic cancer, complicated by obturation jaundice. To all the patients the four-staged treatment, including preoperative preparation, draining operation, chemoradiation and subsequent symptomatic operation, was applied. While performing draining operation there were applied the methods of choledochoduodenoanastomosis formation, elaborated in the clinic. Postoperative complications rate and lethality after application of elaborated method of choledochoduodenoanastomosis formation is lesser than after formation of cholecystojejunoanastomosis and external drainage.