[Emergency laparoscopy in the examination of middle-aged and elderly patients with acute surgical diseases of the abdominal cavity]. / Ekstrennaia laparoskopiia pri obsledovanii bol'nykh pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta s ostrymi khirurgicheskimi zabolevaniiami briushnoi polosti.

Urgent laparoscopies were performed on 566 elderly and senile patients suspected of acute surgical diseases of abdominal organs. Laparoscopic examinations proved to be highly informative in 90.4%, little informative in 6.6%, erroneous in 3% of cases. Wide use of urgent laparoscopies in elderly and senile patients allowed to avoid laparotomies in 62.3% of the cases. High curative-diagnostic efficiency of laparoscopies added by laparoscopic cholecystostomy and antegrade cholecystocholangiography in patients with acute cholecystitis, cholecystopancreatitis, mechanical jaundice has been shown.