[Supraduodenal choledochoduodenostomy in complicated forms of cholecystitis in middle-aged and elderly patients]

An analysis of immediate and remote results of supraduodenal choledochoduodenostomy used in 310 patients with acute cholecystitis and diseases of extrahepatic bile ducts enabled the authors to establish exact indications and contraindications to supraduodenal choledochoduodenostomy as one of the methods of finishing choledochoduodenostomy. This method is recommended for elderly and senile patients when elimination of the obstacle for bile outflow in the terminal part of hepaticocholedochus was thought to be impossible or not reliable.