[Cholelithiasis in children].

The article contains the data about the examination and surgical treatment of 21 children with cholelithiasis, most of them girls (6:1). There were 7 children at the age between 4 and 10 and 14 children at the age between 11 and 14 years. 15 patients had accompanying diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

[The choice of the treatment method in complicated lung cysts in children].

The paper analyzes the experience in treating 27 children suffering from complicated cysts of the lungs, which accounts for 1.1% of the total number of patients with pulmonary diseases. Eleven of them were treated conservatively, they underwent puncture or drainage of the cyst with bronchial occlusion.

[Venous drainage of the testis and the causes of the development of varicocele in children].

The article discusses the results of angiological examination of 42 children with primary and 13 with recurrent varicocele by the method of ++trans-scrotal antegrade venotesticulography. Three groups of patients were distinguished: I--with drainage of blood into the left testicular vein, II--with drainage into the left cremasteric vein, III--with simultaneous drainage into the two above-indicated veins. Incompetence of the valvular apparatus of the left testicular vein and impaired blood drainage from the left external iliac vein with the development of retrograde flow of blood along the left cremasteric vein are the most frequent causes of varicocele in children.