[Echography in the diagnosis of organic pathology of the hepatopancreaticoduodenal area after cholecystectomy]. / Ekhografiia v diagnostike patologii organov gepatopankreatoduodenal'noi zony posle kholetsistéktomii.

Potentialities were studied of echography in the exploration of characteristics of the biliary system in those patients (n = 168) in the remote period following cholecystectomy who suffered from postcholecystectomy syndrome (PChES). More than one-third of the PChES patient population demonstrated different changes in the biliary tract, such as concrements, aerobilia, inflammatory process, etc. Pancreatic pathology was recorded in 28.57 percent, hepatic abnormalities--in 32.7 percent of PChES cases. Echography was proved to be a method of high informative value in a comprehensive evaluation of the condition of the biliary system and adjacent organs in postcholecystectomy patients.

[Clinico-roentgenologic semeiotics of chondroectodermal dysplasia (Ellis-van Creveld syndrome)]. / Kliniko-rentgenologicheskaia semiotika khondroéktodermal'noi displazii (sindrom Ellisa-Van krevel'da).

The paper is devoted to the description of a rare hereditary systemic skeletal disease--chondroectodermal dysplasia (CED). The clinical symptoms of CED are divided into 4 groups. On the basis of 2 cases, symptoms of the affection of the locomotor system in patients with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome are analyzed. An x-ray picture of hand and foot lesions is characterized not only by change in the shape, size, number and synostosis of some bones but also by marked reorganization of osseous tissue in the epimetaphysial regions. X-ray examination was shown to be the chief method for investigation of the osseous system.