[Surgical diseases in acute poisonings].

Under analysis there were 104 case histories of patients with surgical diseases diagnosed in a toxicological center. In 34 patients the surgical diseases or mechanical traumas were combined with poisoning, in 106 patients they appeared due to acute poisoning. In the first group most frequent were closed craniocerebral injuries and acute destructive pancreatitis.

[The risk of becoming infected with hepatitis B and C viruses in the pupils of children's boarding schools].

The risk of contamination of 487 inmates of 5 boarding schools at northwestern Ukraine with hepatitis B (HB) and hepatitis C (HC) viruses was analyzed and the role of some factors facilitating the spread of these infections among the inmates of such schools was shown. In 28.3 +/- 2.