[Clinical and genetic features of APC- and MYH-mutation-negative patients with multiple polyposis of large bowel that tested by conventional methods].

The genealogic analysis, molecular and clinical investigations has been carried out in 19 probands with multiple colorectal adenomas (approximately 100 or more). Twelve of these patients (63.1%) were APC and MYH mutation-negative.

[The rehabilitation of colostomy patients].

The most rational way of managing colostomy patients was found to be alternate use of all the methods available for care of colostomy (control of its activity by avoiding misuse or favouring one of the above more than the others). Permanent colostomy is not contraindication to rational work. Just on the contrary, a habitual work distracts the patient's mind from thinking too much about his/her bodily defects.

[Traumas and foreign bodies of the large intestine].

Results are reported of the treatment of 49 patients with trauma and foreign bodies of the colon. The authors evaluate the principles of diagnosis and treatment tactics depending on the volume of lesions in the colon and adjacent organs. The results of reconstructive-restorative operations after trauma of the colon are analyzed.