[Computerized echotomography with target puncture biopsy in the diagnosis of thyroid gland lesions]. / Komp'iuternaia ékhotomografiia s pritsel'noi punktsionnoi biopsiei v diagnostike porazhenii shchitovidnoi zhelezy.

Combined investigation of 200 patients with different thyroid lesions was conducted. The program of investigation included computerized echotomography of the thyroid with spot puncture and rapid cytological examination. Of them 138 patients were operated upon. In 125 patients (87.4%) combined investigation including spot aspiration puncture biopsy and echotomography helped to establish morphological diagnosis of lesion, to specify indications for surgical intervention and to optimize its use.

[Clinical use of echotomography with target aspiration biopsy and urgent cytological examination]. / Klinicheskoe primenenie ékhotomografii s pritsel'noi aspiratsionnoi punktsiei i srochnym tsitologicheskim issledovaniem.

Upon analysis of the results obtained at cytological examinations of the biopsies performed by target aspiration puncture under the control of ultrasound tomography in 240 patients with various diseases, it was established that combination of aspiration puncture, ultrasound tomography and rapid cytological evaluation improve diagnosis of various diseases, reduce the duration of the examination, increase the quality of treatment.

[Aspiration puncture biopsy in the preoperative diagnosis of adrenal tumors]. / Aspiratsionnaia punktsionnaia biopsiia v predoperatsionnoi diagnostikopukholei nadpochechnika.

The results of fine-needle aspiration puncture (AP) and cytologic examination in the preoperative period in 4 patients with various lesions of the adrenals are discussed. AP was conducted under local anesthesia and control by ultrasonic examination; no complications occurred. Analysis of the cytologic findings allowed preoperative morphological verification of the process, as a result of which the initial clinical diagnosis was changed in 2 of the 4 cases. With an exactly established preoperative cytologic diagnosis a rational therapeutic tactics can be chosen, and the necessity of using complicated examination methods, diagnostic laparotomy among others, obviated.

[Complex ultrasonic scanning, Doppler sonography, telethermography and infrared radiometry in studies of carotid artery circulation]. / Slozhnoe ul'trazvukovoe skanirovanie, doplerosonografiia, teletermografiia, infrakrasnaia radiometriia pri issledovanii krovoobrashcheniia po sonnym arteriiam.

The authors first applied a complex of modern noninvasive methods of studying cerebral vascular pathologies, both direct (phonoangiography, echopulso- or echosphygmography, bidimensional scanning) and indirect (telethermography, ultrasound flowmetry, photoplethysmography and ophthalmodynamometry, inhalation radiocirculography) in examining patients with various stages of atherosclerotic carotid impairment and various forms of cerebral vascular pathology (ischemic stroke, transient disorders of the cerebral circulation, initial manifestations of cerebral circulation deficiency) verified by cerebral angiography, surgery or necropsy findings. High informative value of the above methods used combined in cases of circulatory pathology in the carotid bed was shown and the differential evaluation of the importance of every individual method in concrete types of cerebrovascular pathology was carried out. The use of ultrasound and thermovisual methods is considered to be most promising in the diagnosis of vascular cerebral impairments.