[Emergency laparoscopy in the examination of middle-aged and elderly patients with acute surgical diseases of the abdominal cavity].

Urgent laparoscopies were performed on 566 elderly and senile patients suspected of acute surgical diseases of abdominal organs. Laparoscopic examinations proved to be highly informative in 90.4%, little informative in 6.6%, erroneous in 3% of cases. Wide use of urgent laparoscopies in elderly and senile patients allowed to avoid laparotomies in 62.3% of the cases. High curative-diagnostic efficiency of laparoscopies added by laparoscopic cholecystostomy and antegrade cholecystocholangiography in patients with acute cholecystitis, cholecystopancreatitis, mechanical jaundice has been shown.