[The dynamics of hormonal indicators in women of Arkhangelsk under stimulation of corticotropine].

The test with pharmaceutical "Synachten Depot", a synthetic analogue of corticotropine was carried out. The sampling consisted of 30 clinically healthy women aged from 20 to 30 years and residents of Arkhangelsk. The scheme of blood sampling provided basal sample, 30 and 60 minutes, I and 4 days after administration of pharmaceutical.

[Potential use of current X-ray contrast studies in the detection of small intestinal polyps in the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome].

The paper presents the results of studies of the small bowel in 9 patients with the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. The indications for the study were the clinical picture of gastrointestinal bleeding and the symptoms of ileus. The author's intubation enterographic procedure using the better composition of barium suspension and an infusion system for administering contract substances into the small bowel, an improved fractional contrasting procedure, and a procedure employing the agent Entero-view was applied for contrasting the small bowel.

[Experience in examining the small bowel with the agent Enteroview].

The paper presents data of small bowel X-ray study in 20 patients by using the contrast agent Enteroview. Thirteen patients were found to have changes typical of chronic enteritis (n = 9); atypical location of the cecum and inflammatory ileocecal lesion (n = 2); Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (n = 10); Crohn's disease (n = 1). The X-ray semiotics of the normal and abnormally changed small bowel is given.