[A crystallographic method of examining the lacrimal fluid in the diagnosis of various eye diseases]. / Kristallograficheskii metod issledovaniia sleznoi zhidkosti v diagnostike nekotorykh zabolevanii glaz.

The authors analyze the results of examinations of the lacrimal fluid by the crystallographic method in 123 patients with inflammatory, dystrophic, and tumor diseases of the eyes and orbit and in 20 healthy controls. The examinations have revealed essential changes in the lacrimal fluid crystallograms of normal subjects and patients with various ocular and orbital diseases, which fact recommends this method as one of the tools for the differential diagnosis of diseases of the organ of vision.

[Elucidation of the possibilities for muscle transplantation in paralytic esotropia. Electromyography of the superior and inferior rectus muscles]. / K ob''iasneniiu vozmozhnostei myshechnoi transplantatsii pri paraliticheskoi ézotropii. Elektromiografiia verkhnei i nizhnei priamykh myshts.

The activity of superior and inferior rectus muscles of the eye in a gaze upwards, downwards, to the right, to the left and in primary position has been electrographically determined in 13 adults without disturbances in eye motility. The analysis of the results obtained has shown that there doesn't exist adducent action of these muscles as an active physiologic function. Anatomically conditioned, but practically low and weak, adducent action of the muscles, being passive by nature, can be in norm caused by the weakening of the external rectus muscle in adduction of the eye, because in horizontal moving it preserves the level of activity characteristic for primary position of the eye. One must think that after surgical correction of paralytic esotropia by methods changing the vector of action of superior and inferior rectus muscles for restoration of adduction, the desired action of the transplanted muscles is passive and low (to 6-8 degrees).