[Treatment of ulcer disease by radical duodenoplasty].

Results of radical duodenoplasty for the treatment of ulcer disease in 645 patients were analyzed. Early postoperative complications were registered in 11-12% of patients, of them 2% were jatrogenic. The majority of complications were connected with anatomical difficulties of the operation.

[Differential surgical treatment of idiopathic megadolichocolon in adults].

An analysis of results of surgical treatment of 158 adult patients with the syndrome of chronic colostasis (SCC) has shown that the rectal form of Hirschsprung's disease (RFH) was diagnosed in 57 patients while idiopathic megadolichocolon (IMC)--in 101 patients. There were two types of SCC: proctogenic and cologenic. The proctogenic type appears in patients with RFH due to hypogangliosis and agangliosis, and in patients with IMC--as a result of dystrophy of ganglionic neurons of the Meissner plexus of the rectum.