Stomatologii͡a
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A total of 470 patients with inflammatory diseases of the maxillofacial area and neck were examined and treated. Acute inflammatory process was complicated with sepsis in 87 of them. ⋯ This helped accurately differentiate between the intoxication degrees and develop detoxication strategy for each of them. Such a differentiated approach helped appreciably decrease the mortality in the group of patients with odontogenic and stomatogenic sepsis.
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Contact odontogenic mediastinitis is a complication of advanced phlegmons of the face and neck. 22-year experience in the treatment of 107 patients with odontogenic mediastinitis, clinical and laboratory criteria of its diagnosis and differential diagnosis with advanced phlegmons are presented. The programs of intensive therapy adjusted for the disease phase and surgical treatment contributed to lowering of lethality from 50 to 15.3%.