[Stepwise biopsy in diagnosis of bronchial tuberculosis].

Stepwise forceps biopsy was used in 29 patients with different forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, which may ascertain the pattern of bronchial inflammation and the pathogenetic mechanisms of extension of an abnormal process to the bronchial wall, which is important in determining treatment policy. A specific process was found to spread to the bronchial wall from the focus of lesion in the lung tissue itself in a bronchogenic fashion in most (62%) cases and from the bronchopulmonary lymph nodes by contact (38%). There are also data on the impact of controlled short-term chemotherapy in 24 patients with tuberculosis and specific bronchial lesion.

[Diagnostic possibilities of bone scintigraphy in osteoarticular tuberculosis].

Skeleton scintigraphy with 99mTc-technefor was conducted in 71 patients with bone and joint tuberculosis and in 3 patients with nonspecific spinal diseases. The method was found to be highly sensitive in the diagnosis of a specific process, its localization, dissemination and activity. A correlation was revealed between the quantitative characteristics of isotope accumulation and morphologic signs of tuberculosis activity.