[A study of alexithymia in schizophrenia and some somatic diseases].

Objective: To study alexithymia in schizophrenia and some somatic diseases.

Material And Methods: The study included 60 patients with paranoid schizophrenia (ICD-10 F20.0), 55 hypertensive patients with primary heart disease (I11), 53 patients with chronic ischemic heart disease (I25) and 51 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (E10).

[Microsurgical elimination of foot soft tissue defects with free vascularized flaps].

The results of 40 microsurgical transplantations of complex flaps in 37 patients with cicatricial-ulcerous foot deformations are analysed. The surgery was indicated in cicatricial soft tissues defects, unhealing trophic ulcers, inability to use local tissues for plastic surgery. The scapular flap was used in 34 cases, thoraco-dorsal flap in 5 cases, deltoid flap in 1 case.

[Surgical treatment of post-burn deformities of the neck].

Surgical treatment of 205 patients is analysed. It is shown that the traditional methods of correcting post-burn deformities fail to produce good results, either functional or cosmetic. The authors correct post-burn deformities and contractures of the neck by plasty with a graft of uninjured skin taken from the anterior surface of the chest.