[Experience in treatment of patients with spacious cysts of jaws].

Experience in operative treatment of 91 patients with spacious cysts of jaws occupying from 1/3 to capital DSE, Macedonian and more of the lower jaw volume was presented. In 36 patients keratocysts were found and in 55 patients teeth containing cysts. In the latter case it is obligatory to remove fully the cyst capsule because its epithelium is capable of metaplasia and neoplastic transformation. Patients were treated with the use of 2 stage method. 1st stage included decompression operation of cystotomy type; 2nd stage was performed 1-2 or more years later (depending upon primary cyst size) and consisted of remaining cyst capsule removal with wound closure. Benefits of 2 stage operation were described.

[The clinical x-ray aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of the temporomandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome]. / Kliniko-rentgenologicheskie aspekty diagnostiki i lecheniia sindroma bolevoi disfunktsii visochno-nizhnecheliustnykh sustavov.

Clinical and x-ray picture of the syndrome of painful dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint is described. Differential diagnosis of this syndrome and other articular diseases with similar clinical symptoms is presented. Treatment strategy is described in brief.

[Epithelial tumors of the minor salivary glands in the lips and cheeks]. / Epitelial'nye opukholi malykh sliunnykh zhelez gub i shchek.

Difficulties in the clinical diagnosis of tumors of minor salivary glands of the lips and cheeks are discussed on the basis of results of examination of 52 patients with such tumors and comparison of the diagnosis of this condition and of identical tumors of the large salivary glands. Discrepancies between the clinical and pathoanatomical diagnosis are analyzed. Clinical characteristics helpful in the diagnosis of the condition are presented.

[Fibrous dysplasia of the maxillofacial bones of adults]. / K voprosu o fibroznoi displazii cheliustno-litsevykh kostei vzroslykh.

Clinico-roentgeno-anatomical analysis of 39 cases of fibrous dysplasia (FD) of maxillofacial bones in adults was performed. FD morphology was found to be nonspecific, and similar structures could be observed in osteofibroma, osteoblastoma and cementodysplasia of maxillar bones. Diagnosis can be made only clinico-morphologically. The morphological structure of FD is variable and depends on the degree of maturation of bone neoplasia, the intensity of the processes of rearrangement, regressive changes, age, etc.