[Surgical treatment of chronic gunshot osteomyelitis]

The article summarizes the many-year experimental and clinical investigations concerned with the surgical treatment of chronic gun-shot osteomyelitis. The authors came to a conclusion that a decisive role in obtaining positive outcomes of the operations was played by a careful removal of necrotized and infected tissues from the area of the pathological focus, an effective struggle against the infection in the wound and tight suturing of the wound. The material for filling the remaining bone cavity was of no principal importance.