[The classification of cryosurgical resections of the liver in reoperated patients]. / Klassifikatsiia kriokhirugicheskikh rezektsii pecheni u povtorno operirovannykh bol'nykh.

The authors present a classification of cryosurgical operations in resection of the liver in reoperated patients. The basis of this classification is different combination of usual and cryosurgical (cryoresection and cryodestruction) methods, which allow to increase the radicality of the operations. Ten kinds of cryointerventions (5 radical and 5 palliative) were established. The classification proposed allows the operative volume for resection of the liver in reoperated patients to be correctly planned.

[Cryosurgery of focal lesions of the liver in patients requiring reoperation]. / Kriokhirurgiia ochagovykh porazhenii pecheni u povtorno operirovannykh bol'nykh.

Cryosurgery ++ (cryoresection and cryodestruction) was carried out in 21 of a group of 43 patients (48.8%) during resection and +re-resection of the liver in repeated operations. One patient died. It was found that cryodestruction combined with radical and palliative resections of the liver in reoperations improved the late-term results of the operation significantly. With the use of cryotechniques, blood loss is reduced and intraoperative dissemination of the tumour cells and alveococcus and recurrences in the postoperative period are prevented.

[Cryosurgery of alveolar hydatid disease of the liver]. / Kriokhirurgiia al'veokokkoza pecheni.

The authors describe an original cryoapparatus for cryosurgical operations on the liver. They have studied cryostimulation of the liver in experiment in 22 dogs and established that the destroyed portions of the liver turned into a tender cicatrice within 2--3 weeks. Cryoresection created homeostasis only of fine vessels. Large vessels and ducts require isolated ligation in the incision plane. Operations were performed on 6 patients with alveococcosis of the liver subjected to cryodestruction of parasitogenic nodes and 1 cryoresection of the liver with a favourable outcome. The authors positively estimate the effect of cryosurgery on parasitogenic nodes in alveococcosis because such procedures result in the death of the parasite.