Endoscopic ultrasound role of research in the determination of the possibility endo-biliary stenting in patients with neoplastic lesions periampulyary zone

The article presents the results of treatment of 249 patients with neoplastic lesions of the head of the pancreas complicated by obstructive jaundice secondary to severe, were treated at the surgical clinics GKB after SP Botkin Clinical Hospital № 1 and the NI Pirogov from 2008 to 2012. The ratio of male to female ratio was 1:1.7, respectively (155 and 194). Mean age was 65,8 ± 0,7 years. It is shown that the use of the algorithm instrumental diagnosis in patients with obstructive jaundice, including EndoUZI allows a differentiated approach to the choice of biliary decompression in patients with obstructive jaundice of tumorous lesions of the pancreatic head.