[Clinical course and morphological characteristics of different types of seminoma].

A comparative analysis of morphological peculiarities and clinical course of seminoma makes the case for distinguishing three types of the tumor. Prognosis in cases of typical seminoma depends on the level of differentiation of tumor cell elements and stage of tumor. Alkylating drugs and radiotherapy should be a method of choice in treatment of patients with typical seminoma.

[Cytological diagnosis of nodular hyperplasia and cancer of the prostate].

The results of histological and cytologic examination of the material obtained from 289 transrectal punction biopsies of the prostate carried out in 278 patients were compared. Smears were prepared from bioptates and stained haematoxylineosin after the method of Papenheim, Papanicolaou modified by A. V.

[Germ cell tumors of the testis following orchiopexy].

Out of 335 patients with testicular neoplasms, cryptorchidism was concomitant in 84 cases (25%). 28 patients underwent orchiopexy at the age of 5-52 years. Tumor was detected, on the average, 14,4 years after the operation.