[Diagnosis and treatment of stenosis of the major duodenal papilla after cholecystectomy].

The data of diagnosis and treatment of 59 patients with stenosis of the major duodenal papilla (MDP) revealed at different periods after cholecystectomy are analysed. In diagnosis of MDP stenosis, the following methods were employed: ultrasounds scanning of the liver and bile ducts, intravenous cholangiography, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography. The surgical method of treatment was used in 24, an endoscopic method--in 28, a combined one--in 7 patients. The indications and contraindications for the use of different methods of treatment are presented. It is noted that the use of a complex of modern methods of diagnosis and treatment will permit to establish precisely MDP stenosis after previously performed cholecystectomy and eliminate it with minimal lethality.