[Features of pathological changes of fibro-cartilaginous tissue knee in patients with Baker cyst.].

Objective: Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate the characteristics of pathological changes of fibro-cartilage of the knee in patients with Baker cyst, to assess the compliance of degrees of damage stages of osteoarthritis on a scale of Kellgren–Lawrence (K–L), and compare the results with the data of other researchers.

Material And Methods: This study included patients (38–82 years) with a cyst Baker accidentally detected during ultrasound veins of the lower extremities. The subjects underwent a single knee MRI.

[Factors affecting the concentration of serum ceruloplasmin in Wilson-Konovalov disease].

An oxidase activity of ceruloplasmin was studied in blood serum of 335 patients with Wilson-Konovalov disease before specific copper-obviating treatment. Coefficient for calculation of concentration units depending on optic density was estimated by means of copper content measurement in ceruloplasmin. The well-known fact of ceruloplasmin content decrease in the Wilson-Konovalov disease was supplemented by the new data involving age-sex differences and the age-dependent dynamics as compared with healthy persons and with a group of 827 patients with other neurological diseases.