[A method for covering the subcutaneous fat in the surgery of postoperative ventral hernias]. / Sposob obkladyvaniia podkozhnoi kletchatki v khirurgii posleoperatsionnykh ventral'nykh gryzh.

The authors suggested a method for covering the subcutaneous fat and tested it in 115 operations for postoperative ventral hernias. The method is based on vertical arrangement of gauze napkins covering one another in turn by one third. All of the operated on patients had no inflammatory complications of the postoperative wound. The authors claim this method to be among the elements preventing postoperative inflammatory complications of wounds.

[Surgical treatment of choledochal cyst]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie kist kholedokha.

The article analyses experience with the treatment of 5 female patients with a rare disease of the extrahepatic biliary tract--cysts of the choledochus. Errors and complications in surgical tactics are shown. The authors recommend the means for improving the diagnosis and the choice of adequate tactics in various surgical situations in cysts of the choledochus. Cholecystectomy with creation of a +cysto-duodeno-anastomosis and removal of the cause of chronic impairment of duodenal patency is the adequate operation.