[Draining surgery of the main biliary tract in the surgical treatment of chronic and acute pancreatitis].

The authors studied the site of draining operations on the biliary tract in 160 patients with biliary pancreatitis. Among 64 patients with chronic pancreatitis 41 (64.1%) were subjected to various draining operations on the biliary system, one patient died. In a group of 96 patients with acute biliary cholecystitis 47 (48.8%) underwent internal drainage of the biliary tract and 49 (51.1%) patients were treated by external drainage. Four patients died. The late-term results were studied in 25 patients of each group: in group 1 the results were good in 22, satisfactory in 2, and poor in 1 patient; in group 2 the respective results were encountered in 19, 4, and 2 patients. The authors claim that various draining operations on the common bile duct are conductive to improvement of the immediate and late-term results of treatment of various forms of biliary pancreatitis.