[Frontal resection as a means of decision for surgical treatment of rectum cancer].

The work has been devoted to the improvement of methods of surgical treatment of cancer of the rectum. The possibilities to perform organ-saving operations in treatment of cancer of the rectum are discussed. An analysis of treatment of 351 patients with cancer of the rectum has shown that frontal resection of the rectum is possible in more than 40% of such patients since such interventions save the function of the rectum more completely. New methods of preoperative preparation of the patients are described as well as the application of the improved methods of surgical interventions.

[Treatment of tumoral colonic obstruction].

The work was devoted to problems of treatment of patients with cancer of the colon complicated by tumoral colonic obstruction. The authors propose an improved clinical classification of disturbances of colonic obstruction with colorectal cancer. The questions discussed are: decision on the strategy of treatment of acute colonic obstruction patients, the possible differential approach to choosing methods of treatment depending on localization of tumor and duration of the period of the development of intestinal obstruction. The results of treatment of 148 patients with colorectal cancer complicated by acute colonic obstruction are analyzed. It was shown that in 20% of patients with the initial stage of obstruction with the tumor localized in the left half of the colon it was possible to resolve the obstruction by conservative measures followed by the preparation of the patients to planned operation.