[The validation of the choice of individual procedure in the drainage of a lung abscess].

Examined were 70 patients with an uncomplicated pulmonary abscess. It was established that a giant abscess had developed against the background of chronic bronchitis with valvular mechanism of impairement in bronchial patency and increased pressure in the cavity of an abscess. Therefore, the performance of decompression by means of transthoracic drainage was required.

[The effect of the type of operation and of combined pathology on the treatment results in patients with chronic disorders of duodenal patency].

The work presents results of surgical treatment of 38 patients with chronic disturbance of duodenal patency. It was established that operations aimed at the improvement of the passage of food through the duodenum, gave unsatisfactory results in remote period in 30% of cases. Operations are recommended aimed at the improvement of the passage of contents of the duodenum in combination with operations excluding the duodenum from the passage of food.

[Immediate results of gastrectomy in cancer of the stomach].

Based upon an analysis of results of gastrectomies in 463 patients with gastric cancer the authors discuss problems of diagnostics, indications for operation, preoperative management, operation technique and postoperative therapy. During the period of from 1967 to 1986 postoperative lethality was reduced from 13.1 to 4.