[Use of hydrocortisone in treating stenotic tendovaginitis of the fingers in children]. / Primenenie gidrokortizona pri lechenii stenoziruiushchego ligamentita pal'tsev kisti u detei.

Results of the treatment of stenotic tendovaginitis by hydrocortisone injections in 110 children aged from 3 months to 14 years with injuries of 133 fingers are described. Good results were obtained in 64 patients aged under 3 years with the initial stage of the disease. In children of 3-5 years of age (23.7%) satisfactory results were obtained since they had residual effects as inconsiderable thickening in the trigger finger area and the symptom of intermittent click. In 13 children (12.9%) older than 6 years with persistent deformity of fingers and longer duration of the disease the treatment failed to give satisfactory results.

[Role of hospital infection in the occurrence of suppurative complications in children with the use of compression-distraction osteosynthesis]. / Rol' gospital'noi infektsii v vozniknovenii gnoinykh oslozhnenii u detei pri primenenii kompressionno-distraktsionnogo osteosinteza.

The authors have performed clinico-bacteriological investigations in 100 patients. Compressional-distractional osteosynthesis was used to correct deformities of the extremities. In 56 children purulent-inflammatory complications were observed. The main pathogenic agent of purulent complications was staphylococcus. The same phagotypes of staphylococcus were isolated from the skin around the wire, rhinopharynx of the children and medical personnel as well as the air of the hospital rooms.