[Echinococcal disease of the liver]. / Ehinokokno oboljenje jetre.

Hydatid disease is rare and sporadically seen in our region. With the use of modern diagnostic methods the diagnose of echinococcus cyst in the liver is easily and exactly made; most frequently we performed cystectomy paying attention not to disseminate the parasite fluid, and treating the cavum of the pericyst as described by PAPADIMITROU. Using the drainage of subphrenic space we prevent postoperative complications. When the subphrenic abscess appears the hospitalisation period is prolonged, the patient's life is threatened and the treatment is getting expensive.

[Reconstructive surgery of the colon and rectum following war injuries]. / Rekonstruktivne operacije kolona i rektuma posle ratnih povreda.

The results were presented of the retrospective analysis of the treatment of 116 patients' with colostomies following war injuries. Reconstructive operations were performed on these patients between November 1 1991 and November 1 1994. Operations were performed on 8 patients with caecostomy, 47 with transversocolostomy, 45 with colostomy on the descendant and sigmoid colon and on 16 patients with Hartmann procedure. The average age of patients was 33.77 years. The occlusion of colostomy was performed in 81 patients, and in 19 of them the resection with T-T anastomosis was done with difficulties due to technical problems caused by adhesions, ventral hernias, defects of mesenterium and abdominal wall. Occlusion was also performed in 16 patients with Hartmann procedure. The complications encountered were: ileus in three patients, stercoral fistula in 3 (healed with conservative therapy), dehiscence of anastomosis in 1 patient (cured after reoperation, exteriorization of both ends of colon), and wound infections in 21 patients. There was no lethal outcomes.