[Surgical treatment of lumbar disk hernias in children and adolescents].

Results of examination and surgical treatment of 53 children and adolescents with lumbar disk herniation are presented. Examination revealed two types of neurological course of disease: the first type is observed in 75.5% of cases and is characterized by domination of radicular syndrome, and in the second type (24.

[Features of the clinical course of intravertebral disk herniation in degenerative lumbar stenosis].

The paper presents a clinical and neurological analysis of 110 patients with discal hernias who were divided into 2 groups: 1) 50 patients with normal sizes of the vertebral column; 2) 51 patients with its stenosis. Compression syndromes were major in all cases. In patients in whom discal hernia was concurrent with lumbar stenosis, the clinical course was characterized by dull or aching pains in the low back and legs, by symptoms of dysbasia neurasthenica intermittens, severe motor and sensory disorders with autonomic impositions.

[Comparative analysis of surgical methods in the treatment of brain abscesses].

A hundred and ten patients with brain abscesses have undergone surgical treatments: 8, 39, and 63 patients had aspiration, drainage, and removal of abscess with a capsule, respectively. Comparative analysis of surgical treatments revealed that removal of abscesses with a capsule was the most effective operation. Indications and contraindication to each surgical treatment of brain abscesses were defined.

[An analysis of the complications from the surgical treatment of hydrocephalus of different etiologies].

Complications after CSF shunting procedures in 83 (278 in all) patients with hydrocephalus of various origin were analyzed. Complications were more frequently observed in patients with tumor pathology.