[Incarcerated calculi of the major duodenal papilla - a problem of biliary tract surgery].

Strangulation of the stones of the great duodenal papilla is found in almost every fourth patient with a benigh mechanical jaundice. A radical method for removing the stones from the ampulla of the papilla is the transduodenal papillosphincterotomy. The 1-1,5 cm dissection of the papilla is followed by an external drainage of the hepatocholedochus after Holstead or Carr. The nearest results of such operations with strangulated stones are favourable.