[Optimization of education for laparoendoscopic technologies in Ukraine].

International experience of training of surgeons, including urologists, in laparoendoscopic technologies, was analyzed. Practical course "The Fundamentals of aparoscopic Surgery" (FLS) and the European program of education for basic laparoscopic urologic skills (E-BLUS), which are used in specialized centers, constitute a standard programs of development of basic endosurgical skills. Such centers in Ukraine are absent.

[Microtranscutaneous nephrolithotripsy--new possibilities in treatment of patients, suffering urolithic disease].

The results of a new method of laser microtranscutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy application in patients, suffering nephrolithiasis, including it, occuring on background of the ureteropelvic segment stricture and formation of hydronephrosis, were analyzed. The method application permits to lower significantly or eliminate the roentgen burden on patient and surgeon. The laser microtranscutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy is less traumatic, than a standard transcutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy and retroperitoneal endovideoscopic pyelolithotomy.

[Outstanding domestic surgeon Vladimir Nikolayevich Shamov and his contribution to the development of the study of the blood transfusion (the 130th anniversary of his birth and the 50th anniversary of his death)].

The article is devoted to the memory of the outstanding domestic surgeon, Honoured Science Worker of the Ukrainian SSR, academician of the AMS of the USSR, who headed the Department of the Faculty Surgery of the Kharkov Medical Institute during 16 years (1923-1939), his name is associated with the development of the blood transfusion in our country.

[P. I. Shatilov--original domestic clinician, scientist and teacher, one of the first editors of medical journal "Vrachebnoe Delo"].

The article tells about life and activity of original domestic clinician, scientist and teacher, one of the first managing editors of medical journal "Vrachebnoe Delo". P. I.

[Identification of the agents of coccidioidomycosis using polymerase chain reaction].

Two pairs of primers for diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis using the method of PCR were constructed. One pair was used for identification of the two species of Coccidioides (C. immitis and C.