[Acute colonic pseudoobstruction: Ogilvie's syndrome].

Based on literature and own original clinical data authors conclude that Ogilvie's syndrome is the form of dynamic obstruction of colon due to lesion of retroperitoneal neural nodes, heart failure and intoxication. Ogilvie's syndrome complicates therapeutic and surgical diseases. This syndrome can be manifested with acute abdomen symptoms and at 22% cases may be the cause of surgical treatment.

[Foreign bodies of the rectum].

The experience in the treatment of 143 patients with foreign bodies of the rectum and sigmoid colon is analyzed. Groups of foreign bodies are distinguished according to their size, structure and ways of occurring. Methods of extraction of foreign bodies in typical and non-typical situations are described.

[Treatment of epithelial coccygeal fistula].

Analysis of treatment of 822 patients with epithelial coccygeal fistula has demonstrated that purulent complication is indication for primary radical surgery. Number of complications and recurrences decreases if the first focus of inflammation is treated and epithelial fistula is resected after healing of the wound. Anaerobic inflammation is seen in 0.

[Anaerobic paraproctitis].

Anaerobic paraproctitis (AP) was seen in 8.6% of 1057 cases with acute paraproctitis. Severe general condition of the patient, vast damage, fetid wound secretion, extensive detachment and necrosis of tissues were the main AP symptoms.