[A new technique of closing bronchial stump in extended or combined pneumonectomy].

Extended or combined pneumonectomies were performed in 56 cases of advanced complicated non-small cell lung cancer. Bronchial stump was closed by a modification of Overholt's technique using a vascularised tissue flap. Postoperative complication rate was 66%, mortality--23% and bronchial fistula--1.

[Thymoma implants in the pleura as a variant of intrathoracic recurrence].

Extended thymectomy was carried out in 152 patients with various types of thymomas, 61 ones with noninvasive and 91 with invasive ones; in the latter case surgery was followed by chemo- and radiotherapy. Three patients with non-myasthenic invasive thymomas (NMIT) (2.0% of all patients or 10.

[Surgical treatment of "minor" forms of bronchiectasis].

A total of 835 operations were conducted for bronchiectasis on 734 patients (75.9% were children and adolescents). The late-term results of operations for "minor" forms of the disease in 118 patients are discussed.