A clinicomorphological study of pituitary tumors associated with the clinical syndrome of acromegaly.

Transsphenoidal adenomectomy was done on 125 acromegalics. A clinicomorphological study was performed on 113 of these patients. The distribution of morphological types of tumors was similar in both sexes.

[Treatment of patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis and steroid-induced osteoporosis with the preparation Rocaltrol (1,25/OH/2 vitamin D3)].

A clinical trial of the drug "Rocaltrol" was carried out on 16 patients with osteoporosis, II of them with menopause osteoporosis and 5 with steroid-induced osteoporosis. The mean age of the patients was 53.1 +/- 11.

[The value of computerized tomography for the diagnosis of diabetic osteoarthropathy].

The diagnostic possibilities of computed tomography as compared to conventional radiology are presented. Morphological changes, which can be identified by normal x-rays, can be shown by computed tomography without any disturbing overshadowing. The computed tomography is showing especially well necrotic lesions, pathological fractures, and joint changes.

[Determination of changes in the mineral content of the bones of diabetics by photon absorption measurements].

The absolute value of mineral content of the bones (MCB), obtained from a single measurement and compared with the so called mean or normal value for a certain age-sex population, cannot be a reliable diagnostic index owing to the great individual discrepancies of MCB, reaching even to +/- 40%. Only the successive, dynamic and compared within each other values of MCB could be of use for the purposes of medical diagnostics and therapy. As a result for periodic measurements in patients with diabetes, the juvenile diabetes was concluded to be characterized by a higher initial MCB value and a faster demineralization, contrary to diabetes that advanced at an older age.