[Angiosarcoma of the testicular tunica].

One autopsy case of angiosarcoma of the testis tunica in a male of 60 is described. Histologically, the tumour corresponded to malignant haemangioendothelioma while electron microscopically areas having the structure of malignant haemangiopericytoma were also found.

[Analysis of the cause of death in patients with steroid-dependent bronchial asthma].

Description is given of 11 patients with a severe form of protracted corticosteroid-dependent asthma. They died in status asthmaticus. Most of these patients had protracted status asthmaticus and cardiopulmonary failure.

[Primary malignant mesenchymoma of the lung].

A case of a primary malignant mesenchymoma of the lung with elements of rhabdomyo-, leiomyo-, osteo-, fibro- and lipo-sarcoma is described. The tumor developed in a man of 58 with a long history of smoking, complaints of chest pains and cough with scanty sputum expectoration. The neoplastic process involved the upper lobe of the left lung and microscopically contained smooth muscle, endothelial, fibroblast-like cells, multinuclear giant cells resembling osteoclasts, strips of osteoid-like hyalinized connective tissue.