[Acute calculous cholecystitis: "protocols of diagnostics and treatment"].

The proposed protocols of diagnostics and treatment of acute calculous cholecystitis were developed in St. Petersburg Djanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine where the problems of treatment of patients with acute inflammatory diseases of the bile ducts are investigated in collaboration with the leading experts in this field in Saint Petersburg and Leningradskaya oblast. The protocols are based on the collective experience of many authors, who realized in their work different strategic directives and methods of treatment of complicated forms of cholelithiasis and nevertheless came to similar conclusions. They contain recent developments of the organization and carrying out diagnostic and medical measures for patients with this pathology which could improve results of treatment of this not simple category of patients.