[Efim Ivanovich Smirnov--an outstanding founder of the military medicine and civil health care (to the 110th anniversary of birth)].

In October 2014 we celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Chief of the Main Military Medical Administration of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Minister of Health of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Colonel-General of the Medical Service Efim Smirnov (1904-1989). The article highlights biographical information about him.

[Osgood-Schlatter disease in military personnel].

Clinical and radiological manifestations and outcomes of Osgood - Schlatter disease in 141 serviceman held military service are presented. Patients had the late stage of disease. Authors describe four options of radiological signs. Indications for surgical treatment are substantiated. Proved traumatic nature of the disease in the adolescent growth period. Analysis of observational data allows us to conclude that the primary manifestations of trauma of shinbone area can occur in patellar ligament and apophasis of shinbone. In old cases of Osgood-Schlatter disease location and nature of the damage can be determined by hystotope analysis. This disease is one of the manifestations of heterotopic ossification.

[The basic trends in the combined treatment of trophic ulcers of the lower extremities]. / Osnovnye napravleniia kompleksnogo lecheniia troficheskikh iazv nizhnikh konechnostei.

The article summarized the experience of treatment of 253 cases of trophic ulcers of lower extremities (patients' age 18-82). Surgical method was the main one. Operative interventions were oriented at the main point of pathogenesis in order to close the ulcer defect. Considering the abnormalities of microcirculation as a common component of pathogenesis, the authors substantiate the prolonged arterial infusion via large arterial branches, which were catheterized in 76 patients. It is recommended to perform gnotobiological isolation, immobilized protease, pulsed flow, ultrasonic cavitation, laser irradiation.