[Pathogenetic mechanisms of the effect of vacuum therapy on the course of the wound process].

On the basis of the analysed results of treatment of 248 patients with abscesses, phlegmons, and purulent wounds who received vacuum therapy and 215 patients with the same diseases treated by the traditional incision-drainage-method, as well as on the grounds of additional examination findings, the authors show the mechanisms of the effect of vacuum therapy on the course of the wound process. They substantiate pathogenetically the marked therapeutic effect of this method in patients with acute purulent diseases of the soft tissues and purulent wounds.