[Surgical treatment of thoracic esophageal obstruction of neoplastic genesis]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie neprokhodimosti grudnoi chasti pishchevoda opukholevogo geneza.

The results of operative treatment of 126 patients with esophageal cancer, localized on different level, were analysed. In 73 of them the thoracic esophagus affection was revealed. Radical operations were performed in 46 and the palliative--in 27 patients. As a rule, one-staged esophagoplasty was done, using stomach and colon. The original method of the gastric transplant lengthening was proposed, permitting to perform one-staged retrosternal esophagoplasty with construction of cervical esophagogastroanastomosis. Complications have occurred in 6 patients.

[The comprehensive prevention of suppurative wound infection in the postoperative period in diabetic patients]. / Kompleksnaia profilaktika gnoinoi infektsii ran v posleoperatsionnom periode u bol'nykh sakharnym diabetom.

The strict acceptance of the radicalism principles while the purulent inflammation origin eliminate, an accurate sanation and early placement of suture on the operation wound, its adequate and active drainage in combination with expedient local with the help of foamy aerosol "Dioxizol" and stable compensation of hyperglycemia, correction of the homeostasis disorders are necessary in the treatment of diabetes mellitus patients with local purulent-necrotic disease of the soft tissues.

[The x-ray diagnosis of the respiratory distress syndrome]. / Rentgenologicheskaia diagnostika respiratornogo distress-sindroma.

In 210 injured persons with severe nonthoracic trauma the roentgenological changes were studied up. Three stages of changes, characteristic for the respiratory distress-syndrome were revealed.

[Late results of surgical treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis]. / Otdalennye rezul'taty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia generalizovannoi miastenii.

The long-term results of thymectomy in 85 patients with generalized myasthenia at the age of from 16 to 65 years were studied. The complete recovery was noted in 3.3% of the patients, a good result--in 16.7%, a satisfactory one--in 53.3%. In 26.7% of the patients, the clinical effect was absent. At the late period after the operative intervention, in some of the patients, the impairement in the immunoreactivity of an organism preserved. This caused the recurrences of myasthenia and other autoimmune diseases.

[Diagnosis of "shock lung"]. / K diagnostike "shokovogo legkogo".

The dynamic x-ray changes in the lungs of 57 cases with severe non-thoracic traumas and shock were studied. 18 patients showed a symmetric injury to the lung, increase of the size of the pulmonary roots and dramatic markedness of the vascular picture within the first hours after trauma. The small peripheral vessels dilated and became very visible. Alveolar oedema was found in 39 patients 6 to 12 hours after trauma. In 11 patients alveolar oedema progressed to massive oedema. Two phases were found in the development of alveolar oedema: microfocal and macrofocal ones.