[The valves of the marginal sinus of the lymph nodes].

Popliteal lymph nodes of male Wistar rats were studied in scanning regime of electron microscope. On the base of the data obtained it is concluded that on the lymph node surface and in the thickness of a capsule afferent lymphatic vessels branch into thin rami supplied with valves from the inside of the capsule in the site of falling into marginal sinus. Valvular apparatus found obviously gives possibility to regulate lymph flow in the lymph node.

[Surgery of lung metastasis].

Operations were carried out on 94 patients with pulmonary metastases at the Cologna University Clinic from 01.01.1980 to 31.

[Structural changes in the lymph node sinuses in acute blood loss].

By means of light and scanning electron microscopy sinuses of the popliteal lymph nodes have been studied in 50 Wistar male rats. After modelling of an acute hemorrhage in the animals (in 15, 120 min and 1 day) volume of the medullary and marginal sinuses increases essentially, while blood stream intensity decreases in peripheral tissues. Amount of fenestrae in the sinusal lining decreases, that is, perhaps, caused by edema of cytoplasm in the lining cells and accompanied with formation of numerous cytoplasmic protrusions into the sinusal lumen.