[Optimal timing of radical surgery for tumors of the pancreaticoduodenal zone associated with jaundice].

In cancer of the pancreatoduodenal zone complicated by obturative jaundice it is expedient to perform pancreatogastroduodenal resection in two steps: the first step is laparoscopic hepatocholecystostomy, the second step should be fulfilled 10-12 days after normalization of bilirubinemia. The data obtained were taken into consideration in pancreatogastroduodenal resection performed in 20 patients.