[Clinical manifestations of secondary pneumonia in patients of general surgical departments].

Analysis of records of surgical patients and protocols of anatomicopathological investigations in autopsy tissues with changes in the lungs characteristic of pneumonia suggest to us that secondary pneumonia comes up to 38.5% of all post mortem examinations. In 9 percent of the deceased, secondary pneumonia appeared to be a direct cause of death.

[Compartment syndrome in patients with diabetic foot syndrome complicated by purulent necrotic lesions].

Results of treatment of 35 patients with syndrome of diabetic foot (SDF), complicated by purulent-necrotic affection occurrence, were analyzed. Impact of compartment syndrome in this situation was established. The data obtained would promote the improvement of results of treatment in patients with SDF.

[Experience with the treatment of suppurative wounds using silver nitrate stabilized in dimexide].

The use of a dressing with silver nitrate stabilized in dimexide in the treatment of 33 patients with phlegmons of different location permitted to reduce the duration of wound preparation for placing sutures, autodermoplasty 2-2.5 fold when compared to the control group of 30 patients, who were treated by conventional methods.