Operative treatment of postpulmonectomy empyema.

Objective: To analyse retrospectively 10 patients with postpulmonectomy empyema.

Methods: Ten patients (9 men, 1 woman, aged 48 to 69 years) with postpulmonectomy empyema treated over a 12 year period (1991--2002) were analysed. Nine of the patients had pulmonectomy for lung carcinoma and one--for pulmonary abscess.

Surgical treatment of bronchobiliary fistulas due to complicated echinococcosis of the liver: case report and literature review.

Echinococcosis still remains a widespread disease associated with the development of a number of complications. The present study presents three patients, successfully treated surgically of bronchobiliary fistulas--in two of the patients the fistulas were due to complicated echinococcosis of the liver, and in the third patient the fistula was a result of a hepatic abscess which developed in a residual cavity after echinococcectomy. The patients were discharged from hospital in good health.

Perforation of the esophagus.

For the period 1993 through 2001 a retrospective clinical analysis of 22 patients with perforation of the esophagus was conducted. All patients received treatment at the Clinic of Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery, St. George University Hospital, Plovdiv.