[Surgical treatment of cancer of the hepatic duct]

The authors experience with 96 patients treated for cancer of the hepatic porta arising from the hepatic duct is discussed. The most resultant technics of investigation in this pathology are retrograde endoscopic cholangio-cholecystography (in 30 patients) and transjugular cholangiography (in 3 patients). Thirteen patients were radically operated upon, they were subjected to a circular resection of the common bile duct the site of hepatic ducts branching with subsequent hepaticojejunostomy. It is believed that a higher degree of resectability in tumors of this zone may be possible on account of perfection of early diagnosis and widening of an extent of surgery.