[Mechanical suture in bile duct surgery]

The authors describe results of using "one-agraffe" suturing devices and an original "many-agraffes" apparatus for suturing a wound of the common bile duct, papillosphincteroplasty and creation of bile-eliminating anastomoses in experiments in 47 dogs and clinical application in 104 patients. It was shown that these devices can considerably facilitate and accelerate the performing of operations, increase the hermetic properties of the suture and anastomoses, thus giving better remote results as compared with manual sutures with synthetic and catgut threads.