[Quality of life in patients after restorative operations].

The analysis of the results of the surgical treatment of colon cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, polyposis of colon, diverticular disease of colon on the bases of quality of life scale indexes, questionnaire SF-36 was carried out. The authors have compared the quality of life of patients who underwent surgical treatment using restorative operations after removing functional parts of the colon. The quality of life indexes in 11-12 days after the operation were higher in the first group compared with the second one.

[Quality of life in patients after laparoscopic and open interventions for colonic tumors].

The analysis of results of surgical treatment of the colonic cancer patients, basing on the quality of life scale indexes, using questionnaire SF-36, was performed. There were compared the quality of life in patients, who have been operated, using laparoscopic (I group) and open (II group) interventions in 1998--2003 yrs. The quality of life indexes in 7-8 days after the operation were higher in I group than in the II group.