[Choice of the method of surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis].

An analysis of surgical treatment of 187 patients with chronic pancreatitis was made during 3-year period in the department of surgery clinic of Byelorussian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education. Drainage operations were performed on 28 patients, resection-drainage operations were carried out on 130 patients and resection operations had 19 patients. The laser beam technologies were successfully applied during operations on the pancreas in 43 patients.

[Improving the results of the intestinal obstruction treatment].

The results of surgical treatment of 517 patients with intestinal obstruction were analyzed. All patients had wide small bowel resections with primary anastomoses. The study demonstrated that the main survival predictive factors were: the age, general clinical condition, time before the operation, type of the anastomosis, resection volume of the adducent bowel loop and systemic complications.