[Diagnosis and treatment of intestinal obstruction caused by cholelithiasis]

Cholelithic intestinal obstruction was observed in 7 (4.7%) of 150 patients operated upon for intestinal obstruction of non-tumor origin. The patients' age ranged from 56 to 82 years. The patients were admitted within the terms from 1 to 21 days since the onset of the disease. All patients were subjected to surgical therapy. In one case a duodenal concretion was removed, and cholecystectomy was performed. In the remainder a bile stone was removed from the small intestine. In one of these patients the intestinal segment changed pathologically being resected with an end-to end anastomosis. Three patients died: two--from peritonitis and one--from pulmonary artery embolism.