RATIONALE FOR THE APPLICATION OF CALCITONIN LEVEL IN THE EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER.

Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of the basal calcitonin (CTb) determination in the early postoperative period to predict the possible recurrence (persistence) of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC).

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of the treatment results in 194 patients with MTC (148 (76.3%) primary - group 1 and 46 (23.

["Incidental" thyroid carcinoma among patients in surgical treatment for nontumors thyroid desease].

Incidence of unexpected diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma among operations on benign thyroid surgical diseases (nodular goiter and Graves' disease) was studied in 608 patients within 2008-2009 years in specialized clinic of endocrine surgery. In 56 (9.2%) patients the "incidental" thyroid carcinoma including 43 (77%) - papillary microcarcinoma were diagnosed in histological investigations.

[Radionuclide examination of functional disorders in patients with acute abscess of lung].

Potential of radionuclide examination for study of external respiratory function is discussed. Results of examination of 42 patients with lung abscess are analyzed. Procedure of perfusion and ventilating aerosol pulmonoscintigraphy with (99m)Tc-pentatex is described in detail.

[Concept of the Mediterranean diet in modern European nutrition].

The article is devoted to the analysis of the conception of the Mediterranean diet that has become to be shared by many leading nutritionists of Europe over the last decade as a possible reference model of nutrition for inhabitants of many countries of Central, Northern and Eastern Europe. An association is shown between some nutritional factors and indices for general mortality, mortality from ischemic heart disease and cancer of certain localizations. A positive effect has been unraveled of monounsaturated fatty acids together with negative effects of saturated fatty acids on the process of beta-oxidization and mitochondrial functions in the cardiac muscle.

[Thoracoabscessotomy in combined treatment of lung gangrene].

Patients with gangrene and gangrenous abscess of the lung belong to the most severe group of patients with purulent lung diseases. Conservative treatment is not effective, lethality after lung resection or pneumonectomy ranges from 20 to 70%, therefore the study of less traumatic but life-saving operations is topical. From 1996 to 1998, 296 patients with purulent destructive processes in the lung were hospitalized, 34 of them had gangrene or gangrenous abscess of the lung with significant intoxication.