[Possibilities of surgery optimization for esophageal carcinoma in age-related aspect].

The article presents an experience of treatment of 180 patients with esophageal carcinoma. A resection of the esophagus with the gastric graft plasty was performed using original methods in 163 patients. There were 74 patients at a mature age and 89 patients at an elderly and senile age.

[Estimating the treatment and diagnostic and surgical work of the medical service army unit].

To improve the objective quantitative evaluation of treatment-and-diagnostic work in the force link of the medical service the complex analysis of surgical work was conducted in 22 medical subunits. The urgency and informativity of the three indices of treatment-and-diagnostic work are substantiated: the number of completed treatment cases in the force link (%), the average treatment duration in the force link (days), the number of complications (%). The methods of index calculation are presented.