[Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: experience and prospects].

The author's experience accumulated over 40 years shows that two major forms of surgical pulmonary tuberculosis (restrictive and disseminated) should be distinguished. The treatment of the former patients is highly effective and safe. To treat patients with progressive disseminated tuberculosis, especially in those who isolate Mycobacteria resistant to previously used drugs is difficult and expensive, which requires non only new generation antituberculous drugs, but comprehensive complex preparation for surgery.

[Roentgeno-morphologic forms of bronchioloalveolar cancer].

The paper is concerned with the description of clinical, x-ray and morphological investigation of 123 bronchoalveolar cancer patients. Three types of this disease were defined: nodular (homogeneous and nonhomogeneous), pneumonia-like (infiltrative and infiltrative-nodular) and mixed (focal-disseminated, focal-nodular and focal-infiltrative). These types of bronchoalveolar cancer are most probably stages of the same tumor process.

[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of a mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis].

The article deals with material on 161 patients with the mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis. Variants of the X-ray picture and clinical manifestations of the disease are described. The authors list the indications for the use of bioptic methods of examination--prescalene biopsy, transthoracic needle biopsy, transtracheobronchial puncture, and mediastinoscopy.

[A pneumonia-like form of bronchioloalveolar cancer].

Clinico-roentgeno-morphologic correlates were studied in 28 cases of pneumonia-like form of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. Histocytologic and roentgeno-anatomic patterns of the tumor were established. Clinical, roentgenological and morphologic features of the disease are described.

[Means of improving the organization of surgical care of lung cancer patients].

The paper discusses improvement in diagnosis and surgical treatment of lung cancer starting from detection of alterations in the lungs to establishing indications for surgery. A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures aimed at improving the results of surgical treatment of the disease is suggested.

[How to improve the diagnosis of diseases of the respiratory organs? (the experience in organizing diagnostic services at the Sverdlovsk Pulmonology Center)].

The authors have summed up their 12-year experience in forming a system of organizational measures for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases in an industrial area with the adult population of 3,616 mln. The major stages of diagnosis were studied, measures for its improvement defined, the main causes of diagnostic errors brought to light. The authors are of opinion that separate examination of patients with pulmonary pathology in different institutions is inappropriate.

[Surgical treatment of lung cancer in elderly patients].

The study was concerned with ann analysis of the immediate and long-term results of surgical treatment of 263 lung cancer patients aged 60 years and older. Postoperative lethality rates were as follows: lung resection-5.4%, pneumonectomy-8.

Endoscopical biopsy in the differential diagnosis of lung diseases.

The results of endoscopical sampling methods, as described in this study, were performed on 5276 patients with different pulmonary lesions. Illustrations were made of the diagnostic possibilities of biopsy methods and their dependence on size and localization of pulmonary lesions. Most appropriate sequence was outlined for the use of different sampling methods.