[Role of health centers in reduction of morbidity in women employed in the construction industry].

The study covered the health status of 4500 women of various building occupations. Locomotor diseases turned out to take the first place among other somatic diseases. Disorders of larynx, ear and nose are widely spread.

[Ambulatory surgical treatment of patients with Dupuytren's contracture].

Experience in surgical treatment of 61 outpatients (64 hands) is discussed. The organization of treatment was accomplished stage-by-stage: stage I, detection, selection, examination, preoperative management, stage II, operation in an in-patient operating room, stage III, postoperative management of a patient. Postoperative complications in the form of partial necrosis of the edge of the wound developed in 3 patients.