[Restoration of contractile capacity of the muscles after closed malleolar fractures].

According to the literature data incomplete restoration of the muscular strength is observed after malleolar fractures that made us evaluate the contractile capacity of the tibial muscles after treatment of 59 adult patients with these fractures using Ilizarov method. Additionally, late follow-up of 5 cases were examined in complex. Practically, full restoration of the anatomical sizes, electrogenesis and contractile property of the tibial muscles is possible in the interval from 5 to 8 years after treatment that can be explained by fine reduction and reliable fixation of the bone fragments during treatment and increase of neuro-motor apparatus sensitivity to the specific impacts while muscles' work in the conditions of habitual motor activity.

[Computed tomography semiotics of osteonecrosis and sequestration in chronic hematogenic osteomyelitis].

Based on the data of computed tomography, radiography and densitometry in 39 patients the authors describe in detail the signs of osteonecrosis and sequestration of different localization and extension.

[Computed tomography in the diagnosis of soft tissue changes in patients with chronic osteomyelitis of the femur].

Computed tomography was used to study soft tissues of the femur in 78 patients with its chronic recurrent osteomyelitis and the studied parameters were estimated. The fibrous changes were found to be more pronounced in posttraumatic osteomyelitis; the thickening of the subcutaneous fat and its atrophy were equally marked; the density gradients between the intact muscle, infiltrated muscle tissue, and purulent leakage were calculated.