[The optimal drainage of the bile ducts and subhepatic recess in the surgical treatment of complicated cholecystitis].

On the basis of the analysis of the results of surgical treatment of 478 patients with complicated cholecystitis, it was established that the Robson-Vishnevsky method (95 cases) was the optimal one for drainage of the bile ducts after diagnostic (19) or therapeutic (115) choledochotomy, and that of Halsted-Pikovsky (9)--in manipulations through the cystic duct. Drainage of the subhepatic space by means of a rubber tube drain is effective. The methods for active decompression and transdrain therapeutic measures used in presence of purulent-inflammatory process in the bile ducts, or subhepatic space are presented.