[Treatment of patients with malignant tumors of organs in the pancreaticobiliary zone complicated by the development of emergency situations].

The results of surgical treatment of patients with cancer of the gallbladder (23), extrahepatic bile ducts (16), pancreas (28), major duodenal papilla (10), with tumour metastases in the liver (10), who developed, as a consequence of the tumour process progression, acute abdominal conditions--inflammatory syndrome, increasing jaundice, high ileus and hemorrhage are analysed. Emergency operative interventions were directed at solving the urgent situations and had, mainly, the palliative character. After the operation, 16 (21%) patients died.