[Epidural-sacral anesthesia in radical surgical treatment of acute paraproctitis]. / Epidural'no-sakral'naia anesteziia pri radikal'nom khirurgicheskom lechenii ostrogo paraproktita.

The epidural-sacral anesthesia was used in 242 patients operated upon for different forms of acute paraproctitis. No complications resulting from the anesthesia were noted. The incidence of failures in performing epidural-sacral anesthesia was 3.6%. The epidural-sacral anesthesia has advantages over other kinds of anesthesia, is safe and not technically difficult and practically has no contraindications.

[Surgical treatment of acute paraproctitis]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie ostrogo paraproktita.

The authors made operations on 113 patients with various forms of acute periproctitis by their original method. One of its main elements was to open the intermuscular space of the rectum by dissection of the internal sphincter and part of the circular muscular layer. The proposed method of treatment of acute periproctitis is thought by the authors to be radical since the operation was not followed by recidivations which shortened staying of the patients at the hospital.