[A classification of implants for reconstruction of the anterior and middle supporting columns of the spine].

Objective: The study objective was to classify implants for anterior interbody fusion, depending on their design features and functional capabilities, to optimize the choice of endoprosthesis designs for reconstructive surgery of the spin.

Material And Methods: We analyzed information provided in advertising brochures, annotations, and communications describing the designs of vertebral body endoprostheses. To study the design features of various implants, we selected 25 implant types with the structural designs of major units typical of vertebral body replacement systems.

A telescopic vertebral endoprosthesis for subaxial cervical fusion.

Purpose: The study purpose was to develop an anterior subaxial cervical fusion technique using a new telescopic vertebral graft (VG) construction and to introduce the technique into clinical practice.

Material And Methods: We analyzed existing VG constructions used in anterior interbody fusion at the cervical spine level and developed our own variant of a vertical, cylindrical, telescopic, mesh, vertebral endoprosthesis as well as a technique of its placement to replace bodies of the cervical vertebrae. The technique was used in 11 patients with spinal trauma.

[Surgical treatment of osteomyelitis of the frontal bone and the walls of the frontal sinus].

Having in view observations made during surgical treatment of 21 patients with frontal bone osteomyelitis of traumatic (18 patients) and rhinogenic (3 patients) origin, three varieties of osteomyelitis can be distinguished, viz. osteomyelitis of frontal squama, osteomyelitis of frontal sinus wall, and mixed osteomyelitis involving nasal bones. Three therapeutic approaches are recommended: closed healing of the wound after dissecting the fistula and removal of osteomyelitic bone lesions, drainage of frontal sinuses via the frontonasal anastomosis, and tamponade of the cavity, that developed after the resection of the pathological focus, with the host muscle tissue.

[Neurologic symptoms and their dynamics in contusions of the spinal cord of mild and moderate severity at the level of the 1st and 2d cervical vertebrae].

The results of the study of 154 patients with an acute trauma of the cervical portion of the vertebral column showed that fractures, dislocations and fractures/dislocations of the first-second cervical vertebrae accounted for 10.4% of all the studied cases. In mild contusion of the first-second segments the leading clinical symptoms in the acute period were pareses of the arms and paralyses of hands with retained reflexes and insignificant impairments of sensitivity in fingers, i.