[Ascending aorta injury followed by cardiac tamponade after sternal puncture].

Heart or great outflow vessel injury followed by cardiac tamponade is an extremely rare event. However, it is the most dangerous complication of sternal puncture requiring urgent surgical intervention. The effectiveness of specialized care directly depends on its availability and timely diagnosis.

[MODERN APPROACHES TO PERIOPERATIVE THERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER: "PRO" AND "CONTRA" FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE].

Patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer have a chance to reach a 5-year survival rates ranging from 70% or more for stage IA and 20% for stage IIIA. These figures have remained stable for the past 20 years. Moreover, the inability to improve long-term outcomes is generally determined by a fatal disease progression due to the emergence of distant metastases or local recurrence often in combination with systemic progression process.

[CURRENT STATE OF COMBINED TREATMENT FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER. ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES: BASIC TRENDS IN CLINICAL ONCOLOGY].

Despite the modern achievements of different methods of treatment, primarily surgical, with recognized need of standardization of lymphadenectomy D2, gastric cancer still remains one of the most difficult malignant tumors characterized by high rates of one-year mortality and low rates of survival that are far from satisfactory. According to experts such unsatisfactory results are determined by a combination of factors: the characteristics of ill people, their functional status, age characteristics, the prevalence of the disease at diagnosis with the presence of systemic micrometastases, resistance to treatment, etc. Moreover, a factor of resistance to treatment i.