[Exfoliative cytological diagnosis of lung cancer with bronchoscopic material].

Analysis of the results of exfoliative cytological diagnosis of lung diseases from fibrobronchoscopic materials in the presence of the affected bronchial mucosa made it possible to verify lung cancer in 75.9% of cases and to give a descriptive reply due to the fact that cytological specimens were of no diagnostic value. Further examinations of transthoracic puncture specimens and clinical and X-ray findings of patients from the latter group could reveal an inflammatory process in two thirds of cases and peripheral lung cancer in a third.

[Aggressive fibromatosis of the small pelvis]. / Agressivnyi fibromatoz polosti malogo taza.

Experience in the treatment of 25 patients with aggressive fibromatosis of the true pelvis is discussed. To establish a precise diagnosis obligatory and special methods of examination were applied. Secondary changes in the adjacent organs and structures were found in 24 patients. Radical operations were conducted on 19 (76%) patients, in 13 of them the interventions were combined. The mean duration of the operations was 5.3 hours. Complications developed in 17 out of 19 patients. Hemorrhage was the most frequent (in 12 out of 19 patients) and menacing complication. The blood loss was 3036.8 ml on the average. Recurrences were registered in 8 out of 19 (42.1%) patients.

[The tumor pathomorphosis and status of the regional lymph nodes after the preoperative polychemotherapy of patients with vulvar cancer]. / Patomorfoz opukholi i sostoianie regionarnykh limfaticheskikh uzlov posle predoperatsionnoi polikhimioterapii bol'nykh rakom vul'vy.

Effect of endolymphatic lymphotropic polychemotherapy on tumor and regional lymphatic nodi was studied in postoperative material of 30 patients with vulval carcinoma. Significant antiblastomatous effect was obtained, tumor impairment index ranging from 68.9 to 79.2%.