[Potentialities of diagnostics and palliative surgery in patients with obstructive jaundice of tumorous origin].

The work deals with the results of treatment of 322 patients with subhepatic jaundice of tumorous origin, who were treated at the clinic of Hospital Surgery of the Kuibyshev Medical Institute during the recent 15 years. In patients subjected to surgery associated with chemotherapy a longer survival was noted as compared with those without chemotherapy.