Invasive sinus aspergillosis with perineural spread in an immunocompetent patient.

Invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses is usually seen in immunocompromised patients and is associated with a very high mortality rate. The disease is distinctly uncommon in immunocompetent patients. A rare case of invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinus and orbit with intracranial extradural extension via perineural spread along the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve in an immunocompetent patient is presented.

[Autoimplantation of cryopreserved (- 196 degrees C) thyroid gland parenchyma as a treatment method in postoperative hypothyroidism].

To treat postoperative hypothyrosis, use was made of implantation of autologous thyroid tissue preserved and stored for 4 to 12 months before patients developed hypothyrosis. It was established that the treatment was followed by an increase in 131I accumulation in the body at the expense of its accumulation by the implant and stimulation of the process in the stump. This was paralleled by a considerable rise in T3 and T4 and reduction in TTH in the patients' blood.