[Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: experience and prospects].

The author's experience accumulated over 40 years shows that two major forms of surgical pulmonary tuberculosis (restrictive and disseminated) should be distinguished. The treatment of the former patients is highly effective and safe. To treat patients with progressive disseminated tuberculosis, especially in those who isolate Mycobacteria resistant to previously used drugs is difficult and expensive, which requires non only new generation antituberculous drugs, but comprehensive complex preparation for surgery.

[Roentgeno-morphologic forms of bronchioloalveolar cancer].

The paper is concerned with the description of clinical, x-ray and morphological investigation of 123 bronchoalveolar cancer patients. Three types of this disease were defined: nodular (homogeneous and nonhomogeneous), pneumonia-like (infiltrative and infiltrative-nodular) and mixed (focal-disseminated, focal-nodular and focal-infiltrative). These types of bronchoalveolar cancer are most probably stages of the same tumor process.

[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of a mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis].

The article deals with material on 161 patients with the mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis. Variants of the X-ray picture and clinical manifestations of the disease are described. The authors list the indications for the use of bioptic methods of examination--prescalene biopsy, transthoracic needle biopsy, transtracheobronchial puncture, and mediastinoscopy.

[A pneumonia-like form of bronchioloalveolar cancer].

Clinico-roentgeno-morphologic correlates were studied in 28 cases of pneumonia-like form of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. Histocytologic and roentgeno-anatomic patterns of the tumor were established. Clinical, roentgenological and morphologic features of the disease are described.