ABSTRACT
The main methods of surgical treatment of 122 patients, suffering achalasia of cardia, in 1996-2007 yrs are depicted. The authors propose to improve the performance of cardiodilatation and esophagocardiomyotomy.
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Cardia/surgery , Esophageal Achalasia/surgery , Esophagectomy/methods , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Esophageal Achalasia/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Severity of Illness Index , Treatment Outcome , Young AdultABSTRACT
The results of treatment of 334 patients, operated on for cholelithic disease, were analyzed. In 164 of them intraoperative transillumination (IT) was applied and in 170--the generally accepted methods of the hepatoduodenal ligament content exposure. There was established the expedience of the IT application for the extrahepatic biliary ducts (EBD) and vessels verification as well as for the choledocholithiasis diagnosis during performance of laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy. Application of IT and the laparoscopic cholecystectomy method proposed have ad permitted to reduce trustworthy the frequency of the EBD and the vessels iatrogenic injury.