[ЕNDOSCOPIC METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY PLEURAL DISEASES].

Own experience of the endoscopic methods usage in diagnosis and treatment of chronic pleural diseases in 343 patients, оperated, using videothoracoscopy and video-assisted thoracoscopy, was presented. Postoperative lethality have constituted 0.29%.

[APPLICATION OF VIOEOTHORACOSCOPIC PROCEDURES IN A SYNDROME OF INTRATHORACIC LYMPHADENOPATHY OF UNDETERIVIINED ORIGIN].

Enhancement of rate of the intrathoracic lymphadenopathy syndrome (ILS) revealing have caused a necessity to find out the informative, secure and miniinvasive method of its diagnosis. There was established, that sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of videothoracoscopic (VTS) biopsy of intrathoracic lymph nodes (ILN) have constituted, accordingly, 96.0, 98.