[Choice of a method of intestinal decompression for prevention and treatment of postoperative intestinal obstruction]. / Vybor sposoba dekompressii kishechnika dlia profilaktiki i lecheniia posleoperatsionnoi kishechnoi neprokhodimosti.

Advantages of the intestine decompression in the prevention and treatment of postoperative obstruction were shown by an analysis of results of the treatment of 348 patients with acute surgical diseases of the abdomen. Lethality was reduced from 30,7% to 16,4%. The authors describe a modification of enterostomy after Maydle which has some advantages over other methods.

[Use of the specialized Diama electronic computer in the diagnosis of acute diseases of the abdominal cavity organs]. / Primenenie spetsializirovannoi élektronno-vychislitel'noi mashiny "Diama" v diagnostike ostrykh zabolevanii organov briushnoi polosti.

A comparative analysis of the precision of a computer diagnosis and medical diagnosis was performed in 717 patients with acute pathology of organs of the abdominal cavity. It was established that the use of a computer makes the physician to perform a more exact examination of the patient. The computer diagnosis was half as exact again as the diagnosis of the physician of the casualty ward and three times as exact as the diagnosis made in the prehospital period.

[Roentgeno-morphological study of the 1st metatarsal bone and the calcaneus on the material of archaeological excavations in Latvia]. / Rentgeno-morfologicheskoe issledovanie pervoi pliusnevoi i piatochnoi kostei po materialam arkheologicheskikh raskopok v Latvii.

In the investigation 183 first metatarsi and heel bones of ancient and contemporary people have been examined. It has been stated that the first metatarsi in contemporary people exceed in length those of ancient people. The thickness of substantia compacta of the first metatarsus, as well as the thickness of the tuber calcanei and lamina plantaris of the heel bones was more pronounced in ancient people than in contemporary people. Spongious trabeculae in ancient men were greater in number and thickness.