[Hepatic echinococcosis and its surgical treatment].

973 patients were operated for the period of 14 years for echinococcosis of the abdominal cavity. Echinococcosis of the liver was revealed in 742 (76.2%) patients.

[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.

[Treatment of postburn cicatricial deformations and contractures of the neck].

Postburn cicatrices and contractures of the neck have been corrected in 130 patients by the routine methods (Z plasty, free transplantation of the skin, combined methods). Analysis of the late results has shown that contractures have been eliminated or reduced in 70% of the patients, but a good cosmetic effect has been achieved in only 30%. In 75 patients plasty of the postburn cicatricial deformations of the neck has been made with the use of dermo-fascial flaps of the intact skin of the thoracic wall.