[Improved method of dermatoplasty]. / Usovershenstvovannaia metodika dermoplastiki.

For restoration of dermal integument on hands, feet, major joints, face and neck in 104 patients special device was used which provided creation of split dermal flaps of new types--with fenestrated gaping perforations or entire flaps with areas of various thickness which enabled to preserve islands of full thickness skin at donor's sites or superficial dermal layers. The thickness of the transplants made up 0.4-0.6 mm in adults and 0.25-0.5 mm in children. Perforated flaps were transplanted in 128 cases, the flaps of variable thickness--in 31. 151 operations (95.0%) resulted in complete recovering of the transplants, all wounds at donor's sites have closed spontaneously. Through 3-17 years after the operation the scars at perforations' sites looked hardly out of the ordinary, the areas of smaller thickness are unnoticeable, skin-grafts are soft and loading-proofed. The decrease in complications' rate and improvement of functional and aesthetic results of treatment after the application of the device were stated.

[Foreign bodies of the stomach and intestines]. / Inorodnye tela zheludka i kishechnika.

The experience with surgical treatment of foreign bodies of the stomach and intestine in 127 patients is summarized. In presence of acute foreign bodies, the use of drugs increasing intestinal peristalsis, or causing vomiting is not recommended.