[The surgical aspects of biliary lithogenesis].

A clinic-morphological classification worked out by the author is made on the basis of the experience acquired during the surgical treatment of 680 patients with various forms of cholelithiasis and its complicated forms. The article discusses the peculiarities of surgical tactics depending on the mechanism of cholelith formation. The author makes a conclusion that cholecystectomy is an obligatory condition of treatment together with the drainage, reparative and recovery operations.