[Professor Dmitry Egorovich Min - physician and poet]. / Professor Dmitrii Egorovich Min ­ medik i poet.

Dmitry Egorovich Min is an outstanding pathologist, forensic physician and hygienist of the Russian Empire, a prominent public figure, professor and vice-rector of the Imperial Moscow University, an outstanding poet-translator and one of the founders of the Russian school of forensic medicine. This article discusses the biography of D.E. Min, his merits and accomplishments in labor and creative activity.

Computer assisted three-dimensional reconstruction of scene in firearm homicide.

Worldwide advances in computer techniques are not yet recognised in the practice of forensic medicine. A promising application is their use in making a three-dimensional reconstruction of the crime scene. This study analyses this technique in a homicide by firearm. Queries regarding the direction and number of shots, position of the victim inside the car when shot at and presence of the accused at the crime scene were answered by a scientific model. Similar reconstruction of the scene, nailing the accused in a heinous crime, has not previously been reported as a study or a case. The paper anticipates impetus to the growth of literature in criminology and forensic sciences. It will also expedite the delivery of justice based on scientific evidence in controversial causes of death.

[The sudden death among the young persons under effect of the different forms of physical loads]. / Vnezapnaia smert' lits molodogo vozrasta pri razlichnykh vidakh fizicheskoi nagruzki.

The present review of the literature publications concerns the problem of sudden death (SD) among the young persons under effect of the different forms of physical loads. The statistical data on the frequency of sudden death are presented together with information about risk factors of SD, the morphological substrates and structural changes that promote death coming. The cases of sudden death among the young persons associated with the amateur sports activities and the professional sport of records are presented. The role of physical exercises and psycho-emotional stresses in the development of the terminal processes is considered with special reference to the risk factors and genetic predisposition to sudden cardiac death, largely among male athletes. The questions of sudden death in connection with cardiac pathologies as its main causes are discussed.

Sudden death in cancer pathology forensic-medical characteristics.

The article presents a review of references on causes of sudden death of persons suffering from oncological diseases. The paper describes the main mechanisms of sudden death of persons with cancer who are subjected to forensic-medical research. Data on the structure of sudden death for the last 10 years are demonstrated. The authors have identified the increase of a number of sudden deaths in the group with oncological pathology 2. 2 times more in comparison with 2005. There are showed peculiarities of forensic-medical diagnostics of reasons of sudden death in cancer.

[Effectiveness of treatment of single cerebral metastasis depending on prognostic groups (RPA RTOG)].

Our investigation was aimed at establishing a relationship between single metastases in the brain and a set of prognostic factors. It involved 278 patients treated at the Center in 1983-2003. The whole brain was irradiated in 273 while 159 of them (58.2%) received additional local irradiation of the brain. Single dosage of 2-2.5 Gy was administered to 158 (57.9%), 115--3Gy and more (42.1%). Mean total dosage was 36 Gy per metastasis for the whole brain and 46 Gy--for total plus local exposure. Among patients with favorable prognosis (RPA) were those aged up to 65, Karnofsky's index > or = 70%, with cured or controllable tumor and without extracranial metastases; poor prognosis--Karnofsky's index < or = 70%, irrespective of any other prognosticators, and intermediate prognosis--the remaining cases. The following four treatment modalities were used: 1) surgery --> radio- or radiochemotherapy (40); 2) chemotherapy > or = radiotherapy --> chemotherapy successively (56); (3) radiotherapy alone (110) and (4) simultaneous radiochemotherapy (72).

[External biliary fistulae following surgery of the bile ducts]. / Naruzhnye zhelchnye svishchi posle operatsii na zhelchnykh putiakh.

Twenty-nine patients with external biliary fistulae were under observation. In 22 cases the formation and functioning of the fistula was caused by obstruction of the flow of bile into the intestine. The abdominal cavity was drained in the acute stage, and then, after the formation of the fistula was concluded and the general condition normalized, its source was removed. In addition to liquidation of the fistula for removal of the cause of biliary hypertension, choledochoenteroanastomosis was established in 4 patients and various manipulations on the papilla were performed in 16 patients.

[Selection of the time of operation in acute cholecystitis]. / Vybor sroka operatsii pri ostrom knoletsistite.

An experience with the treatment of 760 patients enabled the authors to recommend the early operative treatment only for irreversible (gangrenous and perforative) forms of cholecystitis. Multiple cutaneous electrothermometry, counting the electrocyte index of intoxication and urgent laparoscopy are considered to be helpful for the timely diagnosis of the disease.

[Clinical and treatment characteristics of acute cholecystitis in the middle-aged and elderly]. / Osobennosti kliniki i lecheniia ostrogo kholetsistita u bol'nykh pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta.

The clinical picture of acute cholecystitis was analyzed in 221 patients. The authors have studied symptoms of the disease in patients older than 60 such as rapid beginning of the disease, early signs of intoxication and peritonitis. They all made the diagnostics difficult. Urgent operations should be recommended in elderly and senile patients more often due to greater probability of destructive forms of cholecystitis in such patients.