[The relationship between Sjogren's syndrome, systemic sclerosis and lymphoproliferative diseases].

Unlabelled: Despite the large number of studies devoted to the study of systemic sclerosis (SSc), the high risk of developing lymphomas in this disease, the relationship of their development with certain subtypes of SSc and specific SSc-associated autoantibodies is still debated in the literature.

Aim: To study demographic, clinical, laboratory and immunological characteristics of patients with a combination of primary Sjogrens syndrome (pSS) and SSc and diagnosed lymphoproliferative diseases (LPDs); to characterize morphological/immunomorphological variants and course of non-Hodgkins lymphomas (NHL), developing in patients with these rheumatic diseases (RDs).

Materials And Methods: In 19982018 at the Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, 13 patients with clinical and laboratory manifestations of pSS (12) and SSc (13) were diagnosed with various lymphoproliferative diseases (LPDs).

[Idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease].

Idiopathic multicentric Castlemans disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder that has many similar laboratory, radiological, clinical and pathological manifestations with various conditions, including IgG4-related disease. Increased activity of cytokines, especially interleukin-6, leads to systemic inflammatory symptoms with the development of lymphadenopathy and rarely extranodal lesions. Histological changes in the lymph nodesin hyaline vascular and plasma cell variants of Castlemans disease are hardly distinguishable from the pattern of reactive, tumor and IgG4-related lymphadenopathy.

[Clinical and laboratory characteristics of IgG4-realated disease and its diagnostic algorithm].

Aim: to propose diagnostic algorithm of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD).

Materials And Methods: One center retrospective research. 52 pts with IgG4-RD were included.

Diagnosis of IgG4 - related ophthalmic disease in a group of patients with various lesions of the eye and orbits.

Aim: To provide demographic, clinical, laboratory, ultrasound, radiological, morphological/ immunomorphological phenotype of IgG4-related ophthalmic diseases, which allowsmaking a differential diagnosis with granulomatous, autoimmune, inflammatory, endocrine and hematologic diseases affecting the eye and orbits.

Materials And Methods: From 2004 to 2016 108 (78.2%) of the 138 patients were diagnosed with non-tumoral lesions of eye and orbits.

[Impact of СD8/FoxP3 T lymphocyte ratio in the peritumoral area of primary cutaneous melanoma on the prognosis of the disease].

Unlabelled: Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is a malignant tumor characterized by typical histological features, one of which is tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) that reflect the state of local immunity and determines the course of the disease.

Aim: to study a correlation of the ratio of CD8/Foxp3 T lymphocyte subpopulations infiltrating primary cutaneous melanoma (PCM) with the clinical and morphological factors and prognosis of the disease.

Material And Methods: The CD8+ and FoxP3+ T-lymphocyte subpopulations infiltrating PCM were investigated in 180 cases by immunohistochemical staining with anti-CD8 and anti-FoxP3 antibodies.