title: [Instrumental diagnosis and therapeutic decision making in biliary surgery].
abstract: Preoperative evaluation before cholecystectomy includes detailed history of the disease and blood chemistry. Hepatobiliary ultrasonography is the main noninvasive preoperative investigation. The decision to evaluate the common bile duct for stones prior to planned laparoscopic cholecystectomy by ERC may be prompted by clinical suspicion or evidence of jaundice, recent pancreatitis, or a dilated common duct on sonography. Preoperative ERC has the advantage of allowing the simultaneous treatment of duct stones. Intraoperative cholangiography should be available.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Chirurgie, Zentrum für Chirurgie, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lippert
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Manger
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gastinger
mesh_terms: D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D042882:Gallstones / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
vernacular_title: Apparative Diagnostik zur Therapieentscheidung in der Gallenchirurgie.