[Pathomorphology of the large intestinal mucosa in acute infectious colitis]. / Patomorfologiia slizistoi obolochki tolstoi kishki pri ostrykh infektsionnykh kolitakh.

634 biopsies of distal colon mucosa from 393 patients with acute intestinal bacterial and viral infections were studied histologically, histochemically and morphometrically. Acute catarrhal or catarrhal-hemorrhagic inflammation was found regardless of the colitis etiology (Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, rotavirus). The most pronounced inflammation was in shigellosis and minimal one in rotavirus infection. Marked eosinophilic infiltration of the epithelium and tunica propria was observed in colonic contamination with C. pylori. Correlation analysis between morphometric indices in shigellosis and salmonellosis revealed a decrease in the number of strong functional links and the appearance of new ones indicating morphofunctional derangement.

[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.

[Cytomegalovirus disease (a description of 2 cases and a review of the literature)]. / Tsitomegalovirusnaia bolezn' (opisanie dvukh sluchaev i obzor literatury).

The paper is concerned with general information on this infection with the description of 2 cases. In one of the patients the disease developed suddenly. There was no reason to suppose SAID, an immunosuppressive state of another genesis. A course of disease was very grave with the involvement of many organs and systems, the bone marrow. The hematological picture of disease was of particular interest (infection carriers--atypical mononuclears were detected in the blood). Diagnosis was made only at autopsy. This case was illustrative in view of usual search for bacterial infection in patients with fever and physicians' insufficient knowledge of this infection. In the second patient suffering from CML cytomegaloviral disease was diagnosed during her life-time. Causes of the fever syndrome (whether it was due to tumor progression or infection) were analyzed. The former seemed more probable.