[Diagnosis and treatment of diaphragm traumatic ruptures].

29 patients with traumatic ruptures of left cupola of the diaphragm were studied. Pain, dispnoe, tachycardia more intensive after a meal due to repletion and dislocation of the stomach into pleural cavity and its pressure on the organs of the mediastinum were the main symptoms of the disease. The diagnosis of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm was made on the base of clinical and roentgenological examination.

[Selection of therapeutic tactics for nonspecific spontaneous hemopneumothorax].

The results of treatment have been analyzed for 45 patients with nonspecific spontaneous hemopneumothorax. Therapeutic policy was decided upon individually basing on the patient's condition and clinical appearance of the disease. Urgent surgery was performed in 68.

[Echinococcosis of the diaphragm].

According to the authors, echinococcosis of the diaphragm accounts for 2.24% of all hydatid lesions of the thoracic and abdominal organs. It is pointed out that preoperative diagnosis of concurrent and secondary echinococcosis of the diaphragm is difficult despite the performance of pneumoperitoneum and scanning of the liver.

[Diagnosis and treatment of giant air cysts of the lung].

Giant air cysts of the lung were found in 6 of 180 patients admitted to the hospital with spontaneous pneumothorax. The preoperative diagnosis was established in all the patients on the basis of their past history, clinical course, X-ray examination and puncture of the pleural cavity. The operative treatment of cysts of the lung is recommended.

[Intrathoracic complications of hepatic echinococcosis].

Five clinical forms of intrathoracic complications of hepatic Echinococcosis were distinguished on the basis of examination of 115 patients with hepatic Echinococcosis. They were: bilio-bronchial, hepato-pleural, hepato-pleuro-bronchial, hepato-pulmonary and hepato-mediastinal form found in 15 patients (13%). The intrathoracic complications must be treated surgically, cases with bilio-bronchial complications requiring emergent operative interventions.