[Results of surgical treatment of gliomas of the optic nerve]. / Rezul'taty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia gliom zritel'nogo nerva.

The work discusses the catamnestic data on 55 children aged from 10 months to 17 years who underwent operation for glioma of the optic nerve by the one-stage cranio-orbital method. A recurrent tumor was found in 6 patients in postoperative periods of 1 to 5 years. Its source was a nonremoved intracanalicular part of the optic nerve involved in the tumor. Chronic trophic uveitis was encountered in some patients after the operation, which led to subatrophy of the eyeball. Exacerbation of uveitis simulated growth of the tumor into the optic disk in some cases, due to which enucleation of the eyeball was performed.

[Surgical treatment of certain forms of developmental defects of the skull and brain in children]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie nekotorykh form porokov razvitiia cherepa i mozga u detei.

The work deals with the specific features of the diagnosis and the difficulty in choosing the method of surgical management and its expediency in infants with peculiar atypical forms of developmental anomalies of the skull and brain, very large extracranial protrusions the dimensions of which in some cases are many times higher than those of the child's head. Operations aimed at correcting the enormous herniations are conducive to the improvement in the physical and mental development of the children, make care of the children easier, and allow some of them to be discharged from the children's establishment and returned to their parents.

[Clinico-physiologic analysis of the effect of decompressing the cerebrospinal fluid system in children with hydrocephalus]. / Kliniko-fiziologicheskii analiz vliianiia rezgruzki likvornoi sistemy pri gidrotsefalii u detei

Changes in vascular tonicity and blood filling in the brain were studied in 26 children with occlusive hydrocephalus during ventricular punctures and following surgical elimination of the occlusion. The nature of the reactive changes in the tonicity and blood filling of the cerebral and peripheral vessels was found to be different in response to the draining of the CSF system depending on the level of thebrain lesion. Following ventricular punctures with CSF draining the majority of the examined demonstrated a normalization of their elevated tonicity of the cerebral vessels and a disappearance of hampered venous drainage. The dynamics of the vascular responses developing under the effect of dehydration agents is characterized by the maximum response 30-50 min following the administration of the drug and by a gradual restoration of the initial state some 2-2 1/2 hours later.