[Computed tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the liver].

Surgical diseases of the liver were detected by computed tomography in 110 patients. The aimed percutaneous puncture of focal neoplasms of the liver followed by cytological examination of the aspiration material was performed in 34 patients. The elaboration of puncture techniques of treatment of hepatic cysts and abscesses as well as the preoperative decompression of bile ducts in patients with mechanical jaundice is in progress.