[Laparoscopy in the differential diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis and acute gynecological diseases]. / Laparoskopiia v differentsial'noi diagnostike i lechenii ostrogo appenditsita i ostrykh ginekologicheskikh zabolevanii.

Laparoscopy was used in differential diagnostics of acute appendicitis in 524 female patients. Acute gynecological diseases were diagnosed in 123-of them, inflammatory processes in appendages being most frequent. The laparoscopic technology allowed not only to avoid diagnostic errors in all the cases, but also to take all necessary surgical measures. The effectiveness of laparoscopic operations for acute gynecological diseases was confirmed by the absence of complications and recovery within short terms.

[Immediate results of laparoscopic hernioplasty in inguinal and femoral hernias]. / Blizhaishie rezul'taty laparoskopicheskoi gernioplastiki pri pakhovykh i bedrennykh gryzhakh.

In 1992-1994 laparoscopic hernioplasty was performed in 403 patients with inguinal (371) and femoral (32) hernias. Mean duration of hospital-stay 2.3 days, period of incapacity 9.7 days. Complication were encountered in 25 (3.7%) patients, including perforation of the small intestine and commissural ileus for which laparotomy had to be performed. Recurrent hernias occurred in 7 (1.7%) patients in periods of 2 weeks to 1.5 month due to poor fixation of the implant and choice of an inadequate operative method.

[25-year experience with early operations in acute cholecystitis]. / 25-letnii opyt primeneniia rannikh operatsiii pri ostrom kholetsistite.

The authors made an analysis of early operations on 6076 patients. This tactics used in 84.3% of the patients allowed to reduce postoperative lethality up to 2.5%.