[Pediatric surgical one-day hospital].

670 sick children were operated upon under conditions of a one-day surgical hospital. Selection of the patients and preoperative preparing was fulfilled at the polyclinic. The selected children had the following diseases: inguinal (119) and umbilical (87) hernias, hernias of the linea alba (14), hydrocele (68), cryptorchidism (81), benign tumours of soft tissues (43), phimosis (258). Complications in the nearest postoperative period made up 0.3%. The economic effect of the treatment of 670 children with surgical diseases at the surgical one-day hospital was more than 50,000 rubles.