[Glass foreign body in the kidney].

A rare case is reported of a glass foreign body which hit the kidney of a 25-year-old man in the moment of left lumbar injury with window glass. A large fragment of the glass was removed outpatiently, but the second fragment which penetrated into the left kidney was not detected. The patient was admitted to the urological hospital 2 months after the injury.

[Prostatic adenomectomy in patients with a history of myocardial infarct, acute cerebral circulatory disorder and pulmonary thromboembolism].

Immediate and long-term outcomes of adenomectomy have been analyzed for patients with prostatic adenoma with a history of 1-3 myocardial infarctions (185 subjects), 1-2 episodes of cerebral circulation disorder (74 cases) on pulmonary artery thromboembolism (3 cases). The surgery was urgent because of acute urine retention for 88 patients, while it was scheduled in 174 patients. The postoperative developments were uneventful in 84.

[Treatment of patients with ureteral calculi].

Various methods of treatment were introduced to improve the results of management of patients with stones in the ureters and early restoration of their working capacity. Emergency ureterolithotomy (197 patients) reduced the incidence of postoperative complications by 2.4 times and the duration of in-patient treatment by 1.