[Controversial aspects of verification and classification of thyroid tumors]. / Nekotorye spornye voprosy verifikatsii i klassifikatsii opykhlei shchitovidnoi zhelezy.

20-year experience in the intraoperative study of more than 3000 goiters led the authors to the conclusion that the most correct verification of the pathologic process may be performed only by means of intraoperative stereomorphological and histotopographic examination of the biopsy. In case of nodular hyperplasia of follicular and macropapillary structures the most adequate term is adenomatous goiter. The term borderline thyroid tumor is also suggested although it needs further discussion by both clinicians and morphologists.

[Surgical treatment of lung cancer after myocardial infarct]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie raka legkogo posle perenesennogo infarkta miokarda.

The work deals with 70 patients with lung carcinoma and ischemic heart disease and with a history of myocardial infarction. The minimal period between the infarction and the operation was 4 months. The oldest patient was 72 years of age. Patients with I (44%) and III (36%) stages of the disease prevailed. Pneumonectomy (15), lobe-bilobectomy (46), economical resection (7), and explorative thoracotomy (2) were conducted. Reconstructive-plastic organ-preserving and economical resections of the lung widen the indications for surgical treatment of patients with a history of myocardial infarction. Preoperative and postoperative management of patients is recommended. It is preferable to operate on patients with lung carcinoma and a history of myocardial infarction no earlier than 6 months after the infarction. Five-year survival among patients who underwent radical operation was 29.2%, among those treated by lobe-bilobectomy and economical resection, 42.5%, and after pneumonectomy, 18.2%.