[Acute malignant myocarditis and pleurodynia as the manifestation of a probable Coxsackie B viral infection]. / Ostryi zlokachestvennyi miokardit i plevrodiniia kak proiavlenie veroiatnoi virusnoi infektsii Koksaki B.

The authors describe a 45-year-old female patient suffering from rapid-progressing myocarditis with growing disorders in conduction, repolarization alterations and heart dilatation seen for 3 days. The patient died on the 10th day of the disease which started from fever and catarrhal phenomena. Attack-like pains in the right half of the chest and abdomen, removable by narcotics, were a remarkable disease manifestation. The diagnosis of myocarditis was verified morphologically. The disease may be interpreted as infection with Coxsackie B virus associated with myocarditis and pleurodynia.

[Metastasis of breast cancer (according to findings of the pathologist of the I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Institute I during the 25 year period -- 1951-1975)]. / O metastazirovanii raka molochnoi zhelezy (po materialam prozektury I Moskovskogo meditsinskogo instituta im. I. M. Sechenova za 25 let--1951--1975 gg.).

The mammary gland cancer metastasizes most frequently into lymph nodes, the liver, bones, lungs and adrenal glands. Calculations of the combined coefficient of metastasizing showed the adenocarcinoma more frequently than other forms to metastasize into the lymph nodes of the chest, adrenals, and kidneys and less frequently into the liver; solid carcinoma with pseudoepidermoid metaplasia metastasizes into the brain more frequently than the other forms. The longest average survival after treatment (radical mastectomy, radiation therapy) was established in a more differentiated form of cancer - adenocarcinoma; the survival time after solid carcinoma and fibrous cancer is considerably shorter.