[POSSIBILITIES OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TREATMENT OF PLEURAL EMPYEMA].

The data, concerning videothoracoscopic operations application in the acute pleural empyema treatment in 462 patients, were adduced. Efficacy of videothoracoscopic operations, using electrowelding and radiofrequency surgical complexes with possibility to eliminate pulmonary-pleural fistulas, was shown. Positive clinical effect was noted in 443 (95.

[Videothoracoscopic atypical pulmonary resection, using various surgical technologies].

Atypical videothoracoscopic pulmonary resection was conducted in 943 patients, using mechanical and electrowelding suture. Various variants of the intervention conduction are adduced. Duration of the patients stationary treatment have constituted at average 6.

Giant pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia presenting in the breast of a prepubertal child.

Large benign lesions of the breasts are rare in children. We present a case of a 35 cm mass, weighing 2.7 kg in a 13-year-old girl with small developing breasts.