[The diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the forensic medical study of cadavers]. / Diagnostika tuberkuleza legkikh pri sudebno-meditsinskom issledovanii trupov.

Presents analysis of cases when pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed during autopsy by forensic medical experts. Before death the patients were not registered at tuberculosis control centres and were administered no treatment for tuberculosis.

[The detection of foci of tuberculous infection]. / Vyiavlenie ochagov tuberkuleznoi infektsii.

Data from an antitubercular hospital in Krasnoyarsk Territory indicate that of 184 autopsy cases with pulmonary tuberculosis in 99 cases no official registration for tuberculosis has been noted and the patients were not treated for this disease. Four of these patients suffered of active forms of tuberculosis.

[Organizational measures regarding joint activities of the forensic-medical, anti-tuberculosis and sanitary-epidemiological services]. / Organizatsionnye meropriiatiia po sovmestnoi rabote sudebno- meditsinskoi, protivotuberkuleznoi i sanitarno-épidemiologi- cheskoi sluzhb.

The preventive aspect of work aimed at early detection of infected subjects and pulmonary tuberculosis patients comprises fuller and earlier awareness of antituberculosis dispensaries for all cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis detected at autopsy during a forensic medical examination. Detection of this contingent of patients requires constant contact of forensic medical experts, phthisiologists + and physicians of the sanitary-epidemiologic service and general therapeutic establishments, which will enable a reduction of tuberculosis infection spread and risk of pulmonary tuberculosis contamination.

[Disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis in young people]. / Disseminirovannyi tuberkulez legkikh u lits molodogo vozrasta.

The problem of diagnosis and course of disseminated tuberculosis was studied in 209 patients at the age from 18 to 29 years. The terms of planned prophylactic fluorographic screening were not observed and as a sequel extensive involvement of the lungs was found more that in 50% of the patients. Young patients show an inadequate towards the severity of the disease, use their own discretion in ceasing treatment. This in the cause of low efficacy.

[Intravitally undetected tuberculosis and non-registered foci od tuberculous infection]. / Ne vyiavlennyi pri zhizni tuberkylez i neuchtennye ochagi tuberkuleznoi infektsii.

Active pulmonary tuberculosis was revealed in 1.55% of the cases registered in 11042 postmortem certificates representing forensic medical examination material accumulated at the archives for a period of 4 years. 66.35% of the cases had not been registered in a dispensary. Pulmonary tuberculosis was stated as a cause of death in 72.7% and as a concurrent condition in 27.3%. The basic activities of the antituberculosis service is to detect tuberculous infection and to rapidly eradicate its transmission. In addition, a close association and coordinated activities of forensic medical experts, phthisiologists and sanitary-and-epidemiologists will ensure an improvement of the epidemiological situation.