[Choledochotomy in acute cholecystitis in the middle-aged and elderly].

Under analysis were 282 patients operated for acute cholecystitis, cholecystectomy being added by the external or internal drainage of bile ducts. It was established that the presence of jaundice, cholangitis, cholecystopancreatitis and gallstones in the ducts were considered as indications for choledochotomy in elderly and senile patients. The general lethality among the patients operated for acute cholecystitis complicated by injuries of the common bile duct made up 10,6%, in the group of elderly and senile patients it was 15,5.