[Surgical treatment of appendicular peritonitis in children]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie appendikuliarnogo peritonita u detei.

The article is based on the results of 10-year use of the method of aspiration drainage of the abdominal cavity in the treatment of 980 children with purulent peritonitis of appendicular origin. The authors used only a polymer tube to drain the cavity of the true pelvis and in principle did not resort to intraoperative irrigation of the abdominal cavity, postoperative lavage, and intraperitoneal injection of antibiotics. Postoperative complications were recognized in the early stages of development and were treated by nonoperative methods on the main. The number of relaparotomies was 0.83% of the total number of operations for appendectomy. The described method meets the principles of pediatric surgery most fully, is more sparing than the other methods, and the authors recommend it for wide introduction into practice.

[Diagnosis of septic conditions in newborn infants with surgical diseases]. / Diagnostika septicheskikh sostoianii u novorozhdennykh s khirurgicheskimi zabolevaniiami.

An analysis of 65 case histories of newborns with pyo-septic surgical diseases has been made. The extraction-spectrometrical method of analysis of blood serum is proposed. The distribution index (DI) in sepsis was always less than 1. Local forms of purulent infection were diagnosed if the DI was more than 1.