[Tanatogenesis in patients with caseous pneumonia in relation to sex].

The purpose of the present investigation was to study the composition of patients with caseous pneumonia (CP), its causes, and fetal outcomes in relation to sex. A hundred and ninety-eight patients, including 139 males and 59 females, were examined. There was a high proportion of socially dysadapted persons particularly among males.

[Composition and morphological characteristics of deaths from tuberculosis].

Two hundred and forty eighty deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis were analyzed in adults. The most frequent cause of deaths was progressive tuberculosis, mainly as caseous pneumonia (60.9%) and the less frequent one was a multicavernous process with bronchogenic (28%) and hematogenic (15%) dissemination.