[Analysis of mortality in outpatient departments].

Outpatient mortality has been analyzed basing on the study of 470 case histories and autopsy protocols for the period 1984-1993. Cardiovascular diseases predominated among the death causes (86.1%).

[Diagnosis of cancer of the thyroid gland].

The clinical diagnosis of carcinoma of the thyroid gland (CTG) is a difficult and responsible problem. The importance of cytologic and histologic methods of examination has grown, they determine the therapeutic tactics and the volume of the operative intervention. Clinical examination and operations were carried out on 484 patients with various diseases of the thyroid.

[Schistosomiasis of the bladder].

Two cases of the urinary bladder schistosomiasis are described. The role of the urinary bladder biopsy in the diagnosis of the disease is believed to be great.

[Combined idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis and lung cancer].

Data are reported of a rare disease of idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis in association with an adenoma of the thyroid gland in a 68 years old woman. The authors emphasize difficulties in the clinical roentgenological and morphological diagnosis in this kind of combined pathology.

[Glomus tumor of the stomach].

A case of the stomach glomus tumour is described in a male of 67, with an asymptomatic clinical course. Results of the angiographic, computer-tomographic examination as well as morphological characteristics of the tumour are presented.

[Clinico-morphologic and electron microscopic characteristics of chemodectoma of the neck].

Chemodectoma of the neck is one of the rare tumors occurring in man. The paper presents an observation of cervical chemodectoma found in a patient aged 31 years. For preoperative differential diagnosis, carotid angiography, ultrasound and radioisotopic examinations were used, which allowed the tumor located at the bifurcation of the left carotid artery to be diagnosed.

[Rupture of a pulmonary artery aneurysm].

Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) is a very rare disease. Such aneurysms are distinguished according to their form (saccular and fusiform) and origin (congenital and acquired). A case is reported of PAA rupture in a female patient, aged 58, that had long been ill with a rheumatic mitral valvular disease.

[Diagnosis of epithelioid sarcoma].

Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumour. Small-nodular structure, necrotic foci in the centre of tumour nodes, moderate lymphocytic infiltration are characteristic histologic features of this tumour. Majority of tumour cells have the appearance of epithelioid histiocytes.

[Case of a pseudoaneurysm of the heart].

Postmortem observation of a false heart aneurysm in a man of 64 is presented. The false aneurysm was located on the posterior surface of the heart and had the appearance of a dome-like protruding sac 16 cm in diameter and 0,3 cm thick, communicating with the left ventricle cavity through a hole 2,5 cm in diameter. The aneurysm wall consisted of hyalinized connective tissue.