[The results of cytologic diagnosis of thyroid diseases (20 years experience)]. / Rezul'taty tsitologicheskoi diagnostiki zabolevanii shchitovidnoi zhelezy (20-letnii opyt)

The data on fine-needle aspiration biopsies and imprint smears for thyroid nodules and regional lymph nodes carried out in 1129 patients at the Institute Clinic (1976-1995) were reviewed. Histological examination was performed in 340 cases. The cytological procedure showed a diagnostic sensitivity of 92.3% and a specificity of 75.8%.

[Cytologic classification of precancer and cancer of the endometrium and esophagus and of malignant lymphomas]. / Tsitologicheskie klassifikatsii predraka i raka éndometriia, pishchevoda, zlokachestvennykh limfom.

The paper discusses cytological classifications of precancer and cancer of the endometrium, esophagus and malignant lymphomas presented by cytologists from five Soviet research institutes of oncology. The classifications were based on the data of 4400 cases in conformity with WHO histologic classifications.

[Endoscopic study methods in the diagnosis of the initial forms of cervical cancer in pregnant women]. / Endoskopicheskie metody issledovaniia v diagnostike nachal'nykh form raka sheiki matki u beremennykh.

The data are described, which were obtained in diagnosing the background processes, precancer conditions and preclinical cancer of the uterine cervix based on the examination of 64,000 pregnant women. The following technics have been employed: cytological, colposcopic methods and contact luminescent colpomicroscopy. The final diagnosis was based on the histological findings of the biopsy specimen or the removed cervical conus. The results obtained have shown the examination of curettings from the cervical surface in the uterine ostium region and from the cervical canal to be mandatory in all pregnant women. The complex examination is indicated in case of the cervical pathology, detected by a vaginal speculum or revealed cytologically.

[Hormonal status and the clinical course of ovarian cancer]. / Gprmonal'nyi status i klinicheskoe techenie raka iaichnikov.

PIP: As a rule, patients with ovarian cancer do not display any important endocrine disturbances. The authors studied the cases of 104 of these patients: 19 had benign tumors, 6 intermediate tumors, 6 had 1st stage ovarian cancer, 7 3rd stage cancer, 54 4th stage cancer. The remaining patients had a recidivist ovarian cancer. All patients with primary cancer had the uterine hormonal secretions studied. The results indicated the absence of specific changes in the uterine secretion of steroid hormones and in the level of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone in the serum. This was true for all patients with benign, intermediate and malignant ovarian tumors. The duration of remission in the patients with 4th stage of cancer was greater when the estrogen stimulation and the level of androgen secretion were increased.^ieng

[Cytomorphological characteristics of glandular hyperplasia of the endometrium]. / Tsitomorfologicheskaia kharakteristika zhelezistoi giperplazii éndometriia.

Cytomorphological pictures of smears prepared from endometrial aspirations and scrapings from 50 patients with glandular endometrial hyperplasia were analysed. Different vaiants of cell and tissue structures are described. It was shown that the difficulties in interpretation of smear elements might result from dystrophic and degenerative changes. An attention is paid to the fact that the diagnosis of glandular hyperplasia should be established with due account of patient's age, while the absence of signs of endometrial glandular hyperplasia in curettage specimens, evidenced hystologically, should not be considered as a disproof of the cytological conclusion.