[Peculiarities of the anatomical structure of the posterior-lower part of the right atrium in people of various constitutional types].

The peculiarities of the anatomical structure of the posterior-lower part of the right atrium (PLP-RA) were studied in autopsy material obtained from 120 men and women aged 22-72 years belonging to various constitutional types. It was found that in persons with pyknic constitution, long PLP-RA prevailed over the short one (59.4 [character: see text] 40.

[Somatotypic characteristic of children aged 8 to 12 years--residents of South Russia].

Somatometry and somatotyping of 435 practically healthy children in the second period of childhood (age: 8-12 years) attending the secondary schools in Rostov-on-Don was performed. In the group of children studied the representatives of macrosomal type were found to prevail. It was established that in children of both sex groups the acceleration of growth of muscular somatic component occurred during the period of accelerated rate of increment of body length and mass.

[Somatometric characteristics of normal young children and children with endocrine pathology].

Somatometry and somatotyping was performed in 570 healthy children in the first childhood period, attending preschool institutions, and in 78 children with pathology (including 59 children with diabetes mellitus and 19 with thyroid pathology) undergoing clinical investigation and treatment in the Department of Endocrinology of Rostov-on-Don Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Pediatrics. The results obtained revealed that thyroid hyperplasia was most frequent in children of micromuscular type with the average development of bone and adipose somatic components. Congenital hypothyroidism was prevalent in children of macrocorpulent type having the average and high bone mass parameters.

[Anatomical parameters determining somatotype of inhabitants of Southern regions of Russia of juvenile and first mature age in the norm and in scoliosis].

With the purpose of study of a degree of an expressiveness and character of mutual relation of fabric components of a soma (osteal, muscular and fatty) at the people of youthful and first mature age in norm and at a scoliosis I-II of a degree is surveyed on a method R.N. Dorohov (1994) 2756 men--inhabitants of the South of Russia.