[Clinico-roentgenological diagnosis of the perifocal inflammatory process in patients with cancer of the rectum]. / Kliniko-rentgenologicheskaia diagnostika perifokal'nogo vospalitel'nogo protsessa u bol'nykh rakom priamoi kishki.

An examination of 1525 patients has established that the main clinical symptoms of the perifocal inflammatory process are: hyperthermia of different degrees, leukocytosis and higher ESR, pain in the rectum area and in the abdomen, tenderness and pasty tissues in the tumor area. The roentgenological symptoms are: the presence of fistulas, considerable dilatation of presacral space not corresponding to the tumor size, pathological "cellularity" of the paraintestinal tissues.

[A more exact x-ray diagnosis of ulceration in cancer of the esophagus]. / Utochnennaia rentgenodiagnostika iz"iazvlenii pri rake pishchevoda

The prognostic and clinicodiagnostic significance of an x-ray picture of ulceration in esophageal cancer was established on the basis of the correlation of x-ray, morphological, endoscopic, operative findings and the control x-ray results following radio- and chemotherapy. Altogether 70 patients were investigated. X-ray symptoms were classified; their significance in the choice of optimum therapeutic tactics was defined.