[Squamous cell esophageal cancer with metastases to the myocardium].

An autopsy case is reported. The patient died of esophageal cancer. At autopsy a massive metastasis to the myocardium was revealed.

[Giant petrifaction in infarction of the right ventricular posterior wall]. / Gigantskii petrifikat v iskhode infarkta zadnei stenki pravogo zheludochka.

The paper reports a lethal outcome of recurrent myocardial infarction in a male patient who in 1996 survived a massive infarction of the right ventricle posterior wall resulting in formation of a giant petrificate with a softening in the center. Connective tissue growth and cardiomyocytic atrophy was histologically revealed in the surrounding tissue. The patient died in 1999 of the infarction of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.

[Morphometric analysis of regression of breast cancer after radiotherapy and thermoradiotherapy]. / Morfometricheskii analiz regressii raka molochnoi zhelezy posle luchevoi i termoluchevoi terapii.

A study was made of 50 infiltrating breast carcinomas, stages II-III, treated with a combined method with or without local UHF-hyperthermia. The object of investigation were cytological and histological specimens, histotopographic tumor slices. Methods of mathematical analysis of correlations between tumor tissue regression and parameters of parenchymal differentiation in cytological specimens and an area of tumor nodes were employed. Tumor tissue regression and differentiation of cell elements in cytological specimens showed correlation in the course of combined treatment on the basis of radiotherapy. Insignificant correlation was revealed between a volumetric density of the tumor parenchyma, preserved after combined treatment with UHF-hyperthermia, and parameters of cell differentiation in cytological specimens. Significantly positive correlation was found between an area of tumor nodes and an area of necrotic foci, developing in them after thermoradiotherapy.