[Repeated operations in the treatment of cancer of the extrahepatic biliary tracts].

Repeated interventions in carcinoma of the ducts were carried out upon 14 patients. The operations happened to be very beneficial for the most of patients and raised the survival period by 3 month to 2 years 4 months. The clinical course of carcinoma of the gallbladder is the most unfavorable. Only in 1 of 3 cases with mechanical jaundice--an aftermath of carcinoma of the gallbladder--the repeated intervention resulted in the formation of the biliodigestive anastomosis. Repeated interventions in carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile ducts are expedient and should enter the scope of routine interventions.