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The authors report their 15-year experience with diagnosis and treatment of 63 boys at the age of 6 months to 15 years having various intestino-urinary bypasses. Clinical manifestations of the latter are polymorphic. The examination of the patients included ultrasonic, histomorphological, x-ray contrast and other investigations. An original classification of the fistulas are proposed. Congenital, acquired, primary, recurrent fistulas are distinguished. Location, topographoanatomic form and diameter are also considered. Surgical policy is discussed in respect of the above factors.

The authors analyze x-ray findings in 194 patients with colonic diverticulosis and its inflammatory complications. Clinical, x-ray, and morphologic studies helped the authors to specify the x-ray semeiotics of diverticulitis, paraintestinal infiltrates, intestinal fistulas. An optimal complex of radiological methods to detect each of these complications has been developed. The authors claim that irrigoscopy supplemented, if necessary, with simultaneous fistulography, or oral enterography is the priority and basic method for the diagnosis of inflammatory complications of colonic diverticulosis.

The paper is concerned with analysis of the results of x-ray examination of 78 patients with enterocutaneous fistulas of various etiology and site. The authors have shown the characteristic features of x-ray examination of patients in whom the fistulas were at the acute phase of their development. They have also defined the diagnostic value of the employed methods and their efficacy for the diagnosis not only of fistulas but also of related complications (inflammatory infiltrates and abscesses of the abdominal cavity, fatty phlegmon, purulent "fillings", complicated fistulas, etc.). During combined x-ray investigation accurate diagnosis of fistulas was established in 97.4% of the patients, purulent complications were revealed in 94.6%.