[Autodermoplasty in postoperative hernias].

Autodermal hernioplasty was used in 102 patients. The transplant was treated by heating through a napkin moistened in the physiologic salt solution. Two methods of hernioplasty are proposed for approximated and nonapproximated margins of the hernia hilus.

[Use of fistula extraction in the treatment of non-ramified pararectal fistulas].

A method of fistula extraction was used in treatment of 42 patients with non-ramified pararectal fistulas. The duration of hospital stay of the patients was 8 days, that of their out-patient treatment--14 days. Within a follow-up period of from 3 mos to 2 yrs, 1 patient with intra-sphincteric fistula developed a disease recurrency.

[Treatment of pararectal fistulas].

We observed 120 patients with acute and chronic paraproctitis. In 75 of them, the pararectal fistulas were revealed. The most frequent causes of a pararectal fistula recurrence were the incomplete excision of the necrotized fat, inadequate wound drainage and incorrect definition of the internal fistulous opening.