[Obstructive complications of brachytherapy: endoscopic methods of treatment].

The article is devoted to evaluating the results of the use of endoscopic treatment in patients with obstructive complications after brachytherapy for prostate cancer. The study included 51 patients diagnosed with T1-T3 stage prostate cancer, who underwent interstitial radiation therapy with 1125. The authors have analyzed the effectiveness of various endoscopic operative interventions--internal urethrotomy, recanalization of the urethra, prostate and urethral prosthetic repair, transurethral resection and incision of the prostate gland--against the background of radiation damage to the urethra and prostate.

[Microsurgical autografting for reconstruction of head and neck oncological defects. An analysis of 60 cases].

The authors analyzed results of the free flap transfer in surgery of head and neck. 60 operations were performed since October 2006 till May 2012. Indications for using them were reconstruction of the mucosa of the oral cavity and the pharynx in 48 cases, the extensive defects of skin and soft tissues of the head and neck in 12 cases.

[Comparative evaluation of efficacy of electropulse and laser lithotriptors in vitro].

The article presents a comparative study of the nanosecond electropulse and holmium laser lithotriptors in vitro. Two types of samples simulating the "hard" and "soft" urinary stones were used; for their preparation stomatological ultrastrength plaster BegoStone was used. For the tests, four sizes of samples of stones in the cuboid shape were made.

[Method of plasty of defects of a hairy part of the head skin after tumor excision].

Results of operative treatment of 8 patients with cellular basal cancer of the hairy part of the head are presented. The patients were operated by an original worked out method of plastic reconstruction of skin defects of the head hairy part after tumor excision. The mathematical substantiation of the surgical method was stated.

[Use of vascularized free flaps for reconstruction of oncological defects in the head and neck].

The aim of the study is to assess our results with free flap transfer. Since October, 2005 till December, 2011 51 operations were performed. Mucosa of upper digestive tract was reconstructed in 40 cases, soft tissues and skin of the head and neck region-in 11 cases.