[Scientific, pedagogical, and surgical work of professor V.F.Voyno-Yasenetsky during the Great Patriotic War].

The article is devoted to activities in the period 1941-1945. Krasnoyarsk and Tambov, a professor of surgery Valentine Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky (Archbishop Luka)--doctor of medical sciences, laureate of the State (Stalin) Prize of the USSR, who made a significant contribution to the success of modern surgical science. A brilliant scholar and successor of the ideas of the outstanding scientist and surgeon Nikolai Pirogov, as in the Great Patriotic War surgeon and consultant evacuation hospitals, along with leading surgeons in the Soviet Union had a significant impact on the results of treatment of wounded soldiers and officers, thereby affecting the development of military field surgery.

[Valuation of effectiveness of optimized algorithm of diagnostics and treatment of acute pancreatitis].

The work is founded on the results of examination and treatment of 1242 patients with acute pancreatits in 1991-2007. There was compared results of diagnostics and treatment of 520 patients in 1991-1999 (group of comparison) before insertion of protocols of diagnostics and treatment of acute pancreatitis and after their insertion and optimization - 722 patients in 2000-2007 (main group). Compared groups are equitable in all categories.

[The local use of Aubazipor for treating suppurative wounds].

An experience with using Aubazipor for treatment of patients with purulent wounds of soft tissues is presented. A preparation in the form of a porous plate was used for the stimulation of reparative processes on the purulent wound. The effectiveness of Aubazipor is due to the mechanical cleansing of the wound surface from pyo-necrotic masses, to a decreased amount of microbe bodies in the purulent wound.

[Characteristics of chemotherapy of infectious diseases associated with gunshot wounds and trauma].

The experience in treating infectious diseases in wounded and traumatized persons from the contingent of the Soviet Troops in ++Afghanistan is described. The syndrome of the joint effect of the injury and infection is characterized. Features of the chemotherapy of the injured patients with viral hepatitis, malaria, typhoid fever and enteric and ++extra-enteric amebiasis under the ecological and professional stress and with an account of the etiology of the wound infection are presented.

[The classification of penetrating gunshot wounds of the abdomen].

The present-day classification of gunshot penetrating abdominal wounds has a several number of limitations, namely: sometimes it is difficult to classify correctly the gravity of wounds, thus patients with different gravity status frequently form the same group of wounded. The authors propose to concretize the existing classification. A new variant will provide for a straight definition between the groups, the wounded who belong to the same group could be comparable in their gravity status.

[The surgical aspects of the lessons of the war in Afghanistan].

There were no two identical wars in human history. From the medical point of view, the civil war, which is still going on in Afghanistan, also has its own face. The structure of sanitary losses, the character, gravity, and peculiarities of gunshot pathology give the possibility to call it as a mine war, because of its massive and, above all, effective mine warfare.

[Antibiotics in the treatment of wounds in the victims of the earthquake in the Armenian SSR].

Purulent wounds in 88 victims of the Armenian earthquake with the syndrome of long-term squeezing were examined microbiologically and the experience with using antimicrobial drugs for their treatment was analyzed. In all the cases microbial associations were detected, coliform and nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli, enterococci, anaerobes and yeast-like fungi being isolated from 80, 20, 15 and 25 per cent of the patients respectively. 130 bacterial strains were studied in detail.

[Characteristics of surgical tactics in rendering specialized services to the victims of the earthquake with long-term crush syndrome].

Mass admission of patients with the crush syndrome to ++non-profile medical institutions allowed to detect three clinical forms of the crush syndrome. Adequate methods of surgical treatment are proposed for each of them.

[Effect of cystamine on the morphology of gunshot wound healing (a light and electron microscopic study)].

Electron microscopy and histochemical tests were used to study the effect of cystamine on gunshot wound healing in experiments on 24 rabbits. Cystamine was established to speed up maturation of the granulation tissue, epithelization of the wound surface and to make the period of gunshot wound healing 4-5 days shorter.

[Morphology of healing of an experimental gunshot wound following primary surgical treatment].

The time-course of healing of a perforating gunshot wound of soft tissues after primary surgical treatment was studied histologically, histochemically and electron microscopically in 24 rabbits. Throughout the observation period (1-28 days) disorders of the microcirculation, inflammatory reaction, degenerative and necrotic changes, disorders of the ultrastructure and metabolic processes in cells were observed in the wound tissues. Morphological changes developed in the zone of molecular concussion the presence of which delayed healing of the gunshot wound and reduced the efficiency of the primary surgical treatment.

[Use of oxyglucocycline in surgical practice].

A new antibiotic -- oxyglycocycline was applied in 107 cases of different surgical diseases. In 52 patients the antibiotic concentration in the blood and tissues was studied, and it was shown that the therapeutic concentration of the drug remains in the blood and tissues for 12 hours. Good tolerance to the drug was proved.

[Glomus tumor of arterio-venous anastomoses].

Collected data of 74 national authors comprising 267 glomus tumors are reported. Based on these data and 49 personal authors' observations the clinic, pathogenesis, pathological anatomy and diagnosis of this rather rare lesion are described. Surgical intervention consisting in total removal of the tumor together with its capsule is the only proper method of treatment for the Barre-Masson disease.