[The significance of the structural characteristics of the sphenoid sinuses in the development of sphenoiditis].

Medicolegal autopsies show a great incidence of sphenoiditides (63.3%) with a prevalent chronic atrophy (48%). Frontal and asymmetric presentation of the posterior cribrate cells about the sphenoid sinuses proved an unfavorable regional anatomic factor underlying dysfunction of the shunt drainage.

[Experience in teaching emergency care at the otorhinolaryngological faculty of the continuing medical training].

In order to improve the expertise and special skills of ENT doctors dealing with urgent cases, the curriculum of advanced medical training courses (the city of Donetsk) has been modified to include several stages: evaluation of the qualification of students; lectures, seminars, practical lessons. This helps ENT doctors to be better prepared when coping with urgent cases, which in turn leads to lower lethality rate and more successful rehabilitation of patients.

[Burns of the auricular conchae, their complications and treatment].

Clinical observations over 130 patients with burnt conchae of the auricle allowed the injuries to be subdivided into two groups: primary and secondary lesions. Primary lesions are associated with the direct effect of the thermal factor upon the concha of the auricle while secondary lesions are related to infectious complications of burns. The classification of thermal lesions presented here may help provide adequate and timely therapy.

[Diagnosis, classification and treatment of burns of the auricular conchae].

On the basis of observation of 239 sufferers with burns of the ear auricles and analysis of clinical data, the authors have suggested a classification of such lesions. Primary lesions are associated with a direct influence of the thermal factor on the ear auricle tissues, and the secondary ones--with addition of infection. In treatment of the sufferers with burns of the ear auricles one should aim at prevention of the deepening of the burns and suppuration of a burn wound.

[Innervation of the respiratory tract in lesions of the airways in patients with burns].

Physical examinations of 343 burnt patients with damaged airways revealed a drastic decline of reflex excitation of their mucosa which resulted in a disordered evacuation ability of the respiratory tract. The morphological substrate of these changes was destruction and death of nerve elements of the airways mucosa which developed during the first week after lesion and led to a decrease of the number of elements in the innervation apparatus of the respiratory tract. The investigations helped to identify the factor responsible for changes in the evacuation ability of the tracheobronchial tree, which is an important component in pathological changes of the airways, and to develop the therapeutic management of respiratory lesions.