[Surgical treatment of patients with severe fecal incontinence].

The objective of the study is improvement of clinical and functional results of surgical treatment of patients with severe fecal incontinence. 79 patients with complete fecal incontinence were included in the study. The technique of surgical intervention was choosed in depending on the localization of structural and functional disorders of the rectum closing apparatus.

[Results of graciloplasty at the patients with complete insufficiency of anal sphincter].

Graciloplasty was performed at 43 patients with III stage of anal sphincter insufficiency. Program of preoperative preparation including therapeutic physical training and electrostimulation of gracilis muscle permitted to improve muscle's functional activity on 19.1%.

[Long-term results of excision of anal fissure in combination with lateral subcutaneous sphincterotomy].

One hundred and seventeen patients with anal fissure underwent fissure excision in combination with lateral subcutaneous sphincterotomy. The mean follow-up after treatment was 4.3 years.

[Potentialities of modern clinical X-ray radiology in the differential diagnosis of tumor and other obstructive diseases of the large bowel].

The misdiagnosis rate in defining the cause of obstructive colonic disease is 8.2-24.4%.

[X-ray study in the examination of patients with perineal fistulas].

The paper discusses whether X-ray study of patients with perineal fistulas is required and justified. The main reason is that there is a diversity of diseases which display the same signs as paraproctitis. Of 426 examinees, perineal fistulas were mainly caused by chronic paraproctitis in 85% and by other various diseases showing the similar symptoms in 15%.