METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING BILE DUCTS INFLAMMATION PROCESS IN POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves taking acute cholangitis patient gall sample during surgical operation using choledochus puncture method and from external choledochus drainage at following days of postoperative period. The obtained textures are compared to the first gall portion texture. Small and moderate size spherulites and spherodendrites, single big spherulites and/or spherodendrites being found on the background of liquid crystal lines in mean quantity or needle-like or plate-like crystals, confocal domains, non-double-refraction, skeletal and thin dendrites and atypical forms in large quantity, inflammation process is to be diagnosed. Separate needle-like or plate-like crystals, confocal domains, non-doublerefraction dendrites and no spherulites, spherodendrites, skeletal and thin dendrites and atypical forms, no inflammation process is to be diagnosed. EFFECT: high accuracy of diagnosis. 3 tbl