[The therapeutic procedure in different degrees of leakage in the injured lung].

Based of an experience with treatment of 118 patients with spontaneous and posttraumatic pneumothorax, pyopneumothorax and state after resection of the lung, the authors have developed a method of determination of the degree of nonhermeticity of the lung in different regimens of respiration and of the selection of treatment depending on the nonhermeticity of the lung.

[Surgical methods in the treatment of gunshot penetrating wounds of the chest].

The authors conducted a comparative analysis of the course of traumatic disease in 1,920 persons with chest injury, according to the character of the injury, the time of surgical aid, and the features of the therapeutic tactics. The surgical tactics consisted mostly in closed active drainage of the pleural cavity (in 52.5%) and surgical debridement of the wounds in the chest wall (in 36.

[Relaparotomy in abdominal gunshot wounds].

Clinical signs of postoperative complications were studied in 642 patients with abdominal wounds, including 102 (15.9%) cases with relaparotomy features. The article makes a comparison between the frequency of various complications on the one hand, and the character of internal lesions, size of the first surgical intervention and the time of the secondary surgical care on the other hand.