[Use of a Soviet fibrocholedochoscope in biliary tract surgery]

Valuable diagnostic and curative potentialities of fibrocholangioscopy were shown by using the method in the treatment of 50 patients. Fibrocholangioscopy can better differentiate various forms of cholangitis thus determining the mode of finishing choledochotomy. Fibrocholangioscopy is recommended as a method of examining for operations on bile ducts.