[Technology of minimally invasive cryodestruction of recurrent tumors].

In oncology practice it has been introduced minimally invasive technology of puncture access for cryodestruction of tumors of various sites as well as obtained positive clinical results.

[Puncture cryodestruction of recurrent facial area basaliomas with ultrasound scan and surgery monitoring].

Ultrasound scan allows determining tumor border in the area of inflammatory infiltrate, creating a three-dimensional plan of the operation, performing accurate pointing injecting cryoprobes as well as managing a monitor of cryoablation. As a result the frequency of repeated recurrences of infected recurrent tumors in difficult anatomical areas of the face decreased to 4%.

[MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY].

During the period from April 2012 to December 2014 54 patients aged 29-76 years, 36 (66.6%) males and 18 (33.4%) females, with esophageal cancer underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy as final phase of treatment.

[Comparison of results of elastography with hormonal and metabolic status in patients with the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms].

In order to assess the effectiveness of compression elastography of the thyroid gland as a method for differential diagnosis to studies conducted in the pre-operative period, there were involved 34 patients with a mean age 46.6 +/- 2.7 years.

[Clinical significance of three-week thyroglobulin test in patients with thyroid cancer undergoing thyroidectomy].

High level of thyroglobulin (Tg) after thyroidectomy has been shown to be an early marker of either metastases or local recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation between Tg level estimated on the third week after thyroidectomy and clinic-pathologic characteristics of DTC as a possible prognostic criterion used to mark the patients with radioiodine therapy indications. Research data on 45 patients (39 women, 6 men, age 22-75 years) with DTC and without high level of Tg autoantibodies have been included in the study.

[The detection of early regional metastases in patients with skin melanoma by dopplerography].

Color Doppler mapping (CDM) of the regional lymph nodes was performed in 152 patients with primary skin melanoma without clinically determined regional and distant metastases. The patients were divided into 2 groups. The first group included 52 patients in whom biopsy was fulfilled after sonography and CDM of the regional lymph nodes.

[Potential of detection of early regional metastases in patients with primary skin melanoma].

Diagnostic procedures for skin melanoma in regional lymph nodes were compared in 250 patients. Doppler effect examination and sentinel biopsy were carried out in 60 patients with primary skin melanoma and clinically intact lymph nodes. Identical examination and regional lymphadenectomy were used in 80 patients with clinically detectable metastases to regional lymph nodes.