[The incidence of urolithiasis (based on autopsy data from the Donetsk Province Clinical Hospital)]. / Chastota mochekamennoi bolezni (po sektsionnym dannym Donetskoi oblastnoi klinicheskoi bol'nitsy).

Autopsy data indicate that urolithiasis is found in 3.6% of 100 autopsies, most frequently in men (62 cases) over 40 years of age. In 2/3 of patients the length of the disease was under 8 years, rarer over 15 years. In most cases renal involvement was bilateral (72 patients). In more that 70% two or three operations were performed. A pathogenetic relationship was found between urolithiasis and malformations of the kidneys and ureters, urinary stasis in disorders of innervation of lesser pelvis organs, hyperplasia of the prostate and disorders of the mineral metabolism.

[Common patterns of the local immune reactions in precancer and cancer of various organs]. / Obshchie zakonomernosti mestnykh immunnykh reaktsii pri rake razlichnykh organov.

Histochemical, morphological and ultrastructural studies of 208 cases of carcinoma of various organs (stomach, colon, lung, mammary gland, bladder, thyroid) and 159 cases of precancerous or risk disease of these organs are given. The degree and properties of local immune reactions in precancer, incipient and advanced carcinoma are compared. The degree of the epithelium and stroma infiltration with the immunocompetent cells as well as the cell composition of the infiltrate vary at different stages of tumour development and depending on its histological structure. Cytotoxic effect of the immunocompetent cells on the tumour cells is revealed, this effect decreasing in advanced carcinoma.

[Isolated actinomycosis of the spinal cord]. / Izolirovannyi aktinomikoz spinnogo mozga.

A brief review of the literature on the actinomycosis of the central nervous system and particularly on that of the spinal cord is given. The authors observation concerns a 7-year-old boy with a clinical diagnosis of congenital defect of sacrum, suppuration of dermoid with fistula in the sacral region, epiduritis, cauditis. At the necropsy the actinomycosis of the lower thoracic and lumbar parts of the spinal cord with the involvement of bone and soft tissue in the sacral region and formation of scarring fistula was found.