[Effect of biliary decompression on the results of the surgical treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver].

The purpose of this study consisted in providing experimental grounds to prove the efficiency of the biliferous tract decompression at surgical treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver. The experiments were carried out on 39 dogs. It was ascertained that within 3 to 5 days after gunshot injury to the liver the conditions for normal bile discharge from the liver into the duodenum get hampered. The decompression of the biliferous system in the postoperative period resulted in the decrease of the severity and duration of posttraumatic bile decompression and exerted an appreciable effect upon the lowering of the lethality.