[Some aspects of work at the city laser surgery center of Ashgabad].

During 7-year work 2,500 operations with a laser were performed for 52 diseases at the center. The authors studied the medico-economical data on the use of the laser techniques in the treatment of persisting wounds and trophic ulcers, cutaneous leishmaniasis, chronic anal fissure, purulent diseases of the soft tissues, epithelial coccygeal passage, ingrowing nail, and localized hyperkeratosis. A comparison group consisted of patients who received traditional treatment.

[Treatment of fissure in ano by the method of laser coagulation].

The article analyses the results of treatment of acute and chronic anal fissures with the use of the method of laser photocoagulation in 181 patients, in 87 of them the fissures were combined with other proctological diseases. The essence of the operation is three-fold laser treatment (CO2 laser) of the edges and floor of the fissures. The pathologically changed tissues are evaporated and coagulated in this case with the formation of a coagulation film on the wound surface.