[Retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic papillotomy in mechanical jaundice]

The authors believe that in jaundices of a mechanical type the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography should be considered the first and foremost diagnostic method and fulfilled in every patient with symptoms of mechanical jaundice. They believe that in order to eliminate the full cholestasis and cholemia in a certain contingent of patients it is expedient to perform endoscopic papillotomy which is followed by spontaneous passage of stone into the intestine.