[Monitoring of arthropods of epidemiological and sanitary importance in the city of Voronezh].

The paper analyzes the results of monitoring the number and species composition of arthropods, which are of epidemiological and sanitary important, in the city of Voronezh in 1998 to 2007. Many years' periodical observations have revealed the main places of breeding for blood sucking insects and ticks, their ecological features, including these under antropogenic stress. There is evidence for the changes in the species composition and the influence of some species on the recent epidemiological situation, which permits the approaches to and tactics of preventive measures to be corrected at the present budgetary stage oriented to outcome, with emphasis on the most significant sections of work.

[Surgical treatment of spinal arteriovenous fistula].

38 patients with spinal arteriovenous fistula (AVF) were treated. In 23 of them dural AVF (DAVF) was diagnosed, in 15--intradural perimedullar fistula (IPAVF). Transvasal embolization was conducted in 4 patients as an independent intervention, and in 7 patients--as a first stage before open microsurgical intervention.

[The clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment of benign vascular tumors of the spine].

In 86 patients with vascular tumor of vertebral column the disease course was studied up in dependence of histopathological type, and the additional diagnostical methods efficacy, tactics of treatment also.

[The surgical treatment of medullocervical tumors].

The study included 12 operated patients with medullocervical gliomas. Two of them had hemangioblastomas, 6-ependymomas, 4-astrocytomas with different degree of dedifferentiation. The gross total tumor removals were achieved in 4 patients with ependymomas and patient with hemangioblastomas.

[The dynamic mental status of patients who have undergone stereotaxic destruction of the ventrolateral thalamic nuclei].

Examined were 80 patients with parkinsonism and 20 patients torsional dystonia before and after stereotaxic cryodestruction of the ventrolateral thalamic nuclei. A set of tests was used to evaluate attention, memory, associative processes, generalization, comprehension to examine these patients. Only in the group of parkinson patients a reduction of these findings was noted (memory, perception, comprehension).