[Diagnosis of obstruction of the large intestine].

In 96 out of 367 investigated patients with diagnosis of acute obturation large intestine ileus was confirmed. These patients were subjected to urgent operations. In another group of patients (64) with an obscure clinical picture urgent rectoromanoscopy was fulfilled after rentgenography.

[Surgical wound dehiscence after esophageal anastomosis in radical surgery of cancer of the cardia].

The authors have analysed 64 observations of suture incompetency of esophageal anastomosis after resection for cancer of the gastric cardiac portion. Three pathogenic phases and three variants of the clinical course are distinguished in the development of the complication. The successful treatment of the complication largely depends on its recognition and properly selected method of treatment with relation to a variant of the course, a phase of the process and terms of its diagnosis.

[Surgical active laparoscopy and fibrocholedochoscopy in diagnosis and treatment of biliary tract diseases].

The authors have analysed the results of 120 laparoscopic cholecystographies and cholecystocholangiographies. In 48 patients laparoscopic cholecystocholangiography was terminated by laparoscopic cholecystostomy. This enabled the authors to eliminate jaundice in all 48-patients, while in 43 of them also to perform in later terms radical or palliative operation.