Thyroid diseases in children and adolescents requiring surgical treatment-indications, techniques, results, and complications based on 10 years of the single center's own experience.

Introduction: Although thyroid abnormalities are observed less frequently in children than in adults, the increased incidence of thyroid cancer makes it mandatory for all pediatric surgeons to be knowledgeable about the disorders of this gland. Thyroid abnormalities can be associated with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism and euthyroidism and/or symmetric or asymmetric enlargement of the gland.

Aim: The present study was undertaken to retrospectively analyze the indications, surgical techniques used, results obtained, and complications found in the surgical treatment of thyroid diseases in children and adolescents in a surgical center for the macro-region of western Poland.

[Complex treatment of postoperative peritonitis as a method of prophylaxis of commissural disease in children].

This work dedicate to study of the use liposome drugs for treatment an complete abdominal pathology--child's postoperative peritonitis. Clinical-instrumental rates for two surgical methods (laparotomy and laparoscopy with liposome drugs) were used. The advantages of the using of the laparoscopy versus open operative treatment for this pathology are shown.

[Two-year experience of laparoscopic operations in the Zhitomir regional pediatric hospital].

First experience of laparoscopic operations performance in children in the Zhytomir region was suggested as well as the advantages of laparoscopy, method of "open laparoscopy", variant of assisted laparoscopy and laparotomy under laparoscopic control. The analysis of results of laparoscopic interventions in 205 children, 36--emergent and 169--planned, was conducted.

[Retrospective estimation of immune status in children with acute hematogenic osteomyelitis].

The immune state estimation in 45 children with an acute gematogenic osteomyelitis was done for the disease course prognosis and the treatment tactic choice. Two groups with duration of treatment up to forty days and from 41 to 160 days were delineated. The immunologic investigation data permitted to prognosticate the disease course duration and to correct the treatment timely.