Diagnosis and surgical treatment of mirizzi syndrome.

Retrospective analysis of the surgical treatment results in 34 patients, operated for intraoperatively diagnosed Mirizzi syndrome (MS), was done. Analysis of intraoperative changes have witnessed, that while transition occurrence of MS from the first to the fifth type a severity of morphological changes in a gallbladder-biliary ducts-duodenum system enhanced with duodenal integrity loss and development of cholecystobiliary or cholecystodigestive fistula. Surgical correction of MS have envisaged cholecystectomy performance or subtotal resection of gallbladder, plastic closure of biliary fistula, using various procedures, external biliary draining and formation of hepaticojejunostomy in accordance to Roux method.