[Endopleural hypertension and mediastinal hemorrhage].

The authors describe injured guy with thorax compression, with difficult bones injury, lungs rupture, major air-way, and blood vessel. The authors try to explain how could injured live more than 20-min with such injuries that make one impossible to live.

[40 years' experience in the treatment of echinococcosis].

The authors present their experience on, 1168 operated patients with hepato-pulmonary hydatid disease. In a long work with hydatid disease the authors refused many earlier methods, as mistake. The authors think that great radical surgery in the treatment of the hydatid disease is not justified.

[Closed injuries of the diaphragm in autopsy material].

Out of 207 cases died of trauma, diaphragmatic rupture takes part in 18 (8.7%). The authors tested how often closed diaphragmatic rupture takes part with correlation of neighboring anatomic injury.

[Surgery of the diaphragm].

The new impulse to the diaphragmatic surgery are given by diagnostical treatment, better knowledge of pathophysiology, the increase of trauma improvement of reanimation and better work conditions. Some aspect of diaphragmatic surgery are separated from totality..