[Surgical strategy for external biliary fistulas].

The authors have analyzed results of the diagnostics and treatment of 68 patients with external biliary fistulas developed after operative procedures on the liver, bile ducts and duodenum. The character of operative interventions was established to depend, first of all, on the causes of the development of biliary fistula. After different surgical procedures in the postoperative period there were 16.2% of complications with 4.4% of lethal outcomes.