[Problematic issues associated with performing water-technical and forensic medical expertize].

The objective of the work was to discuss theoretical and practical aspects related to commissioning of expert studies and performance of a multidisciplinary water-technical and forensic medical expertise, when violation of water transport safety rules is investigated. The studied practice of water transport accident investigations demonstrates that predominately forensic medical examination and water-technical examination are assigned separately. In this connection, there is a need to widen knowledge on transport-technical and forensic medical examinations.

[18F-FDG positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and staging of marginal zone non-Hodgkin lymphomas].

Objective: To investigate the diagnostic value of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) in the diagnosis and staging of marginal zone non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs).

Material And Methods: Twenty-four patients with new-onset NHLs were examined. Extranodal MALT lymphoma, splenic marginal zone lymphoma (MZL), and nodal MZL lymphoma were diagnosed in 18, 3, and 3 patients, respectively.

[Prognostic value of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography in the early evaluation of the efficiency of treatment in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphomas].

Objective: To define the role of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) performed after 2-3 chemotherapy cycles in the prediction of disease prognosis and to identify a group of patients requiring more intensive treatment.

Material And Methods: Seventy-one patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of different histological types were examined. PET was carried out at different stages of diagnosis and primary treatment in the patients.

[The use of SPECT-CT in the diagnosis of cancerous lesions of axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer].

The purpose of the study was to explore the possibilities of a new hybrid technology of SPECT-CT in the diagnosis of metastatic regional lymph nodes (LN) in patients with breast cancer (BC). There were examined 57 primary patients. All patients underwent axillary lymph node dissection and /or biopsy of sentinel LN followed by histological examination of the material.

[Attitude to the illness of patients with malignant lymphomas on various stages of disease].

In 138 patients with malignant lymphomas on different stages of the disease there were considered attitude to the illness and treatment, which included relation to the diagnosis, the subjective perception of the disease and attitude to treatment. Using a technique of studying psychological attitude to the disease there were studied details of personal response to the disease. Along with the general trends in relation to the disease, specific to cancer patients of different tumor sites, there have been identified particular features related to attitude of malignant lymphoma patients: a long period of denial of a malignant nature of the disease and their greatest psychological trauma during relapse.