[[Video-assisted pulmonary resection application for pulmonary tuberculosis].].

Results of application of video-assisted (video-assisted thoracic surgery VATS) pulmonary resection for pulmonary tuberculosis in 63 patients in 2008 - 2016 yrs were analyzed. Typical lobectomy was done in 28 (44.4%) patients, pulmonectomy - in 1 (1.

[ЕNDOSCOPIC METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY PLEURAL DISEASES].

Own experience of the endoscopic methods usage in diagnosis and treatment of chronic pleural diseases in 343 patients, оperated, using videothoracoscopy and video-assisted thoracoscopy, was presented. Postoperative lethality have constituted 0.29%.

[CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ANATOMICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE INTERMEDIATE BRONCHUS RAMIFICATION WHILE PERFORMANCE OF TYPICAL RIGHT-SIDED LOWER LOBECTOMY].

Different variants of the bronchial structures transsection, depending on peculiarities of the intermediate bronchus ramification, are possible while performance of typical resection of lower lobe of the right lung. Clinical significance and criteria of the intraoperative tactics choice in performance of typical lower lobectomy were studied. Trustworthy best results of separate transsection of apical segmental bronchus of lower lobe and of the basal bronchus in a cruciform ramification of intermediate bronchus were noted.

[DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CYTOLOGICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BIOPSY MATERIAL FOR DETERMINATION OF ETIOLOGY OF THE INTRATHORACIC LYMPHADENOPATHY SYNDROME].

In Department of Thoracic Surgery and Invasive Methods of Diagnosis in 2008-2014 yrs 132 biopsy specimen of intrathoracic lymph nodes with further cytological and histological investigation, taken in patients, who were treated for the intrathoracic lymphadenopathy syndrome of unknown etiology, were analyzed. Sensitivity, specificity and general accuracy of cytological and histological diagnosis were determined, while applying various methods of the biopsy material selection.

[APPLICATION OF VIOEOTHORACOSCOPIC PROCEDURES IN A SYNDROME OF INTRATHORACIC LYMPHADENOPATHY OF UNDETERIVIINED ORIGIN].

Enhancement of rate of the intrathoracic lymphadenopathy syndrome (ILS) revealing have caused a necessity to find out the informative, secure and miniinvasive method of its diagnosis. There was established, that sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of videothoracoscopic (VTS) biopsy of intrathoracic lymph nodes (ILN) have constituted, accordingly, 96.0, 98.