[Minimally invasive two-stage treatment of cholecystocholedocholithiasis]

Two groups of patients in whom two-stage treatment of cholecystocholedocholithiasis was performed with different succession of using endoscopic papillosphincterotomy (EPST) and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LCE) were compared. In 59 patients (1st group) EPST was used as the first stage, in 67 patients (2nd group) LCE and drainage of choledochus preceded the endoscopic intervention. The effectiveness of EPST was 93.3 and 95.5% correspondingly in the first and second groups. There were no considerable differences in the frequency of complications, period of treatment at the hospital in the two groups. Lythextraction was obtained considerably more often at the first attempt in the second group of patients (79.1% versus 59.9%, p < 0.05). Due to inefficiency of EPST in three cases in the second group of patients reoperations were required. Thus, EPST should be performed before LCE for the rationally planned further treatment in case of its inefficiency.