[The head of the medical service must be the person...(To the 70th anniversary of N.G. Ryzhman)].

The article is devoted to contribution of major general (rear Admiral. - navy) of medical service Nikolay Grigoryevich Ryzhman (1944-2005), the chief of the medical service of the Northern fleet (1991-1999), to development of naval medicine, who would have turn 70 years this September. The constant analysis, and experience generalization of the medical services of the fleet connections and associations and aspiration to provide fighting capacity for the fleet crew - were a keynote of Ryzhman's activity concerned development and deployment of the new forms and methods of medical support and searching of ways to increase crew efficiency.

[Risk factors of extraocular spread after local treatment of uveal melanoma].

14 cases of extraocular spread in patients with uveal melanoma after previous eye preserving treatment were analyzed. The time of manifestation and risk factors of extrascleral invasion were determined in patients after different local treatment modalities of uveal melanoma.

[Transpupillary thermotherapy in the treatment of recurrent and residual choroidal melanomas: preliminary results].

Thirty-eight patients (16 males and 22 females) with recurrent and residual choroidal melanomas who had undergone brachytherapy were followed up. The indication for transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) was an active residual tumor (36 patients) and recurrent melanoma (2 patients). The follow-up interval between brachytherapy and TTT was 10 to 127 months.