Publications by authors named "V M El'kin"

The authors report the results of the treatment of 64 patients presenting with psoriasis by the applications of a natural highly mineralized bromine-iodine brine. The method has been shown to be highly efficacious and safe. It allowed the clinical remission and marked improvement of the patients' clinical conditions to be achieved in 48 (77.

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The review provides an update on pyoderma ganrenosum, a rare chronic disease from a group of neutrophilic dermatoses. It considers its pathogenesis, its association with background visceral disease, and the specific features of skin and visceral involvement. Major and minor diagnostic criteria and differential treatment approaches are given.

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Aim: Study the state of intestine microbiocenosis in patients with chronic pancreatitis, give comparative evaluation of diagnostic significance of bacterial and gas-liquid chromatography analysis.

Materials And Methods: 96 patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) were examined bacteriologically for dysbacteriosis. In parallel in 42 individuals gas-liquid chromatography analysis (GLC-analysis) was carried out.

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The objective of the present study was to provide hygienic assessment of hospital wards equipped with the therapeutic sylvinite screens (TSS) and compare the results of the treatment of 80 patients suffering vulgar psoriasis with the use of TSS and without them. The sylvinite screens made it possible to create comfortable microenvironment in the wards and moderately increased the radiation background (0,15+/-0,005 Sv/hour) thereby promoting saturation of the ward atmosphere with aeroions dominated by the light negative particles (491,5+/-14,4 units/cm3). Such healthy environment hadc beneficial effect on the clinical course of the psoriatic process, the state of functional systems of the patients and their quality of life.

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Bullous ulcerative lichen ruber planus (BULRP) in a 58-year-old woman is described. Besides the common symptoms (papular rash, vesicles and ulcers on the soles, detachment of the nail plates, atrophic foci on the hairy part of the head), the patient has developed erosions on the buccal and vaginal mucosa, articular involvement, complete loss of hair in the armpits and on the pubis. Local dibunol liniment has been effective in therapy of the mucosal erosions.

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