[The interpretation of the data from the ultrasonic examination of patients with acute and chronic suppurative lung and pleural diseases].

Observations were made in 104 patients with acute and chronic lung abscesses and pleural empyema. The endoscopic, bacteriological and ultrasonic methods were used to make full diagnosis and to begin treatment. This article describes the part of the work devoted to the ultrasonic diagnostics.

[Ultrasonic diagnosis of chest injuries].

Ultrasonic diagnostic examinations were used in 365 patients with closed injuries (150), wounds (181) and consequences of traumas (34). The ultrasonic method allows to rapidly and exactly determine the presence and limits of the exudate, blood, coagulated hemothorax, residual cavity, thickness of the parietal and visceral layers of the pleura, the state of the pulmonary tissue (inflammation, blood inhibition, atelectasis). The ultrasonic method is simple, harmless and applicable under conditions of any surgical hospital.