[Participation of base hospital in regional trauma system].

The authors demonstrated the ability effective work of base hospital in a regional trauma system as a specialized patient care clinic with polytrauma. An experience of the hospital in the treatment of combat injuries, using scales of objective assessment of the severity of injury was applied.

[Modification of Derzhavin sphyncteroplasty and elimination of symphysis diastasis of the pubic bone in severe epispadia].

In 1990-2006 Tashkent Medical Academy Clinic admitted 71 patients (63 boys and 8 girls) with subtotal and total forms of epispadia which in some cases combined with extrophy of the bladder. Thirty-nine patients of this group were treated with conventional Derzhavin sphynctroplasty with suturing the borders of the pubic symphysis. Urinary incontinence was eliminated partially or completely in 72.

[Laparoscopy in diagnosis and treatment of acute abdominal diseases in children].

2765 children with abdominal pains were observed in the clinic of pediatric surgery from 1995 to 1999. During the observation period the abdominal pains persisted in 85 children. As it was not possible to resect the acute abdominal diseases, these children underwent diagnostic laparoscopy.

[Embolization of splenic artery in children with portal hypertension].

This study examined the results of embolization of the splenic artery (ESA) in 30 children (age ranged from 5 to 14 years) with portal hypertension. Effectiveness of ESA was evaluated by a decrease in spleen size, hypersplenism, disappearance of esophageal varices and improvement in blood count. The results show that chronic embolization of the splenic artery in children is relatively safe and effective surgical treatment for portal hypertension.