['Masks' of acute neuroinfections and markers of differencial diagnosis].

Aim: To compare thе medical history, clinical features, composition of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), results of laboratory and instrumental examinations of patients with acute neuroinfections and differentiable diseases including a pseudoinflammatory variant of the acute stage of uncomplicated subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), consequences of traumatic brain injury (traumatic SAH, SAN combination with secondary purulent meningitis, posttraumatic nasal liquorrhea, intracerebral hematomas), abscesses and tumors of the brain, lymphoma with proven CNS. These diagnoses were mistakenly made to patients admitted to an infectious department.

Material And Methods: Forty-six patients, aged from 18 to 83 years, hospitalized in the Department of neuroinfections and intensive care in 2010-2016 were examined.

[Cerebrospinal fluid in clinical aspects of tuberculosis of the central nervous system].

Objective: To identify clinical features of tuberculosis of the meninges and central nervous system (TM) with detailed characterization of changes in the composition of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the initial period of the disease.

Material And Methods: We analyzed the results of the examination of 42 patients, aged from 17 to 49 years, who were hospitalized in 2005-2014.

Results And Conclusion: Most of the patients were admitted in the hospital in early acute disease onset.

[Rare forms of segmental exanthema in patients with Herpes zoster].

Objective: To describe rare clinical cases of Herpes zoster with a rash appeared simultaneously in different segmental zones (zoster duplex unilateralis and zoster duplex bilateralis).

Material And Methods: Brief details of medical histories of 3 patients are presented.

Results And Conclusion: A very rare possibility of the complete fusion of bilateral exanthema on the same topographic level with the development of an entire zoster that confirm a historical name of the disease has been demonstrated.

[Comparative evaluation of effectiveness of traditional serologic and modified methods of herpes zoster laboratory diagnostics].

Aim: Comparative evaluation of effectiveness of traditional serologic and modified diagnostic methods of disease arising due to varicella and herpes zoster virus (VZV) reactivation.

Materials And Methods: 2 groups of patients were examined. The main group consisted of 39 patients with manifest form of herpes zoster (HZ), control--20 healthy donors.

[A rare form of eczema in a patient with herpes zoster].

A rare clinical condition, herpes Zoster duplex bilateralis, is described. Because the erroneous definition of the disease as a lichen is widespread even in the system of advanced medical training, the importance of differentiation between the notions of herpes and lichen is emphasized.