Academy, 95 Gor'kogo Str., Blagoveshchensk, 675000, Russian Federation 2 Amur Regional Clinical Hospital, 26 Voronkova Str., Blagoveshchensk, 675028, Russian Federation The article presents the literary overview dedicated to the diaphragmatic hernias. As an example, a case of the traumatic diaphragmatic hernia with the clinical picture of the pleurisy was described. The thoracoabdominal knife injury of the diaphragm was the feasible reason of this hernia. In this case, a long asymptomatic course of the disease with some gastroenterological symptoms was the reason for the early diagnostics not to be performed. Firstly, the patient was hospitalized to the pulmonology department because of the pleurisylike clinical picture of his case. A diaphragmatic hernia was found only after examination of the patient. A laparoscopic operation failed and the patient was successfully treated by the surgery.

Visual functions in the postsurgical period are among the most important factors determining the quality of life in patients with tumors of sellar region. Advances in surgical treatment of patients with sellar tumors require exact evaluation of degree the optic nerves and chiasm being involved in the pathological process. The problem of approapriate surgical treatment cannot be solved without its consideration in the neuroophthlmological aspect. The main purpose of intra-operative monitoring of visual evoked potentials is well-timed revealing and prevention of damage of the visual system.