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© 2018 Russian Electronic Journal of Radiology. All rights reserved. Purpose. To assess the possibilities of functional multispiral computed tomography (fMSCT) in orbital tumors. Materials and methods. The patient M, 55 years old, was admitted to ENT doctor with complaints of difficulty in nasal breathing and nasal discharge. After clinical and in-strumental examination, orbital tumor in the posterior part near the oculomotor muscle and optic nerve was found. To clarify the state of the optic nerve and its involvement in the pro-cess, the patient was referred by an ophthalmologist to an additional orbit examination us-ing functional MSCT. Functional MSCT was performed on a multispiral computer tomograph Toshiba Aq-uilion One 640, with slice thickness 0.5 mm, in the soft-tissue mode. During the study, the patient made eye movements from the central position upwards, then down, to the right, to the left, with a return to the central position. The time of functional eye movement study was 7 seconds. Results. During the functional MSCT the optic nerves were symmetrical: the left and right optic nerves with distinct smooth contours have a smooth course and differentiated to the orbital apexes. The movements of the optic nerves were symmetrical, in full volume. Taking into account the results of FMSCT, the tactics of conducting and surgical treatment of the patient was changed due to the lack of connection between the orbit tumor and optic nerve. The patient underwent surgical treatment and removal of left orbit tumor. Histologi-cal examination revealed cavernous hemangioma. Conclusion. Functional MSCT is a new promising method in examining patients with neoplasm of orbit. There is an opportunity to obtain additional diagnostic information on the relationship between orbital bone and soft tissue structures with neoplasms within the preoperative planning and postoperative control.

© 2018 ABC-press Publishing House. All rights reserved. Background. The high recurrence rate after conventional transurethral resection (cTUR) for bladder cancer (BC) requires search for more effective methods of surgical treatment. Objective: to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of cTUR versus thulium laser en bloc resection of bladder tumors using new fiber laser "Urolaz". Materials and methods. 129 patients, who underwent surgical treatment for BC between 2015-2017 in urological department of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University were included in the study. The cTUR were performed for 58 patients, 71 patients underwent thulium laser en bloc resection of bladder tumors. Results. The presence of detrusor muscle in specimen was 58.62 % in cTUR group and 91.55 % in thulium laser en bloc resection group respectively. Obturator nerve reflex, bladder perforation, and bleeding in thulium laser en bloc resection group were absent, therefore immediate instillation of chemotherapy was made in all these cases. Recurrence rate after 12 and 18 months after surgery in the group of en bloc resection was statistically lower compared to the cTUR group. Conclusion. The results, obtained in our study shows that thulium en bloc resection using thulium fiber laser "Urolaz" is feasible, effective and safe procedure for patients with BC. Thulium en bloc resection has a number of advantages over the cTUR: Absence of obturator nerve reflex, high quality of specimen for pathological examination (presence of detrusor muscle in specimen was 91.55 %) and low recurrence rate.

© 2018 Media Sphera Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved. Surgical treatment of posterior cranial fossa and cerebellopontine angle tumors is associated with a risk of facial nerve dysfunction. The causes for facial muscle paresis include nerve compression by the tumor, destruction of the nerve structure by the tumor growing from nerve fibers, nerve injury during surgical removal of the tumor, etc. The first 3 months after facial nerve injury are a potential therapeutic window for the use of botulinum toxin type A (BTA). During this period, the drug is introduced both in the healthy side to improve the facial symmetry at rest and during mimetic movements and in the affected side to induce drug-induced ptosis. Post-paralytic syndrome develops 4-6 months after facial nerve injury. At this stage, administration of BTA is also an effective procedure; in this case, drug injections are performed on the affected side at small doses and symmetrically on the healthy side at doses doubling those for the affected side. BTA injections are mandatory in complex treatment of facial muscle paralysis.

© 2018 Tomsk State University. All Rights Reserved.  Sanguinarine is a benzophenanthridine alkaloid with antimicrobial, antiviral, antiparasitic, anti-inflammatory, antiplatelet, antiangiogenic, and antitumor activity. One of the important properties of sanguinarine is a pronounced ability to suppress thrombogenesis, tumor growth and metastasis. However, the low solubility of sanguinarine in biological fluids limits its medical use. The present research was devoted to the development of the liposomal form of sanguinarine and the study of its biological activity. We obtained liposomes with sanguinarine on the basis of lecithin and cholesterol by the method of hydration of a thin film with buffer, followed by sonication and extrusion through a polycarbonate membrane with a pore size of 100 nm. Purification of liposomal dispersion from a drug that was not included in the vesicles was performed by gel filtration chromatography. We studied the morphology of the obtained liposomal particles by scanning electron microscopy; particle size and zeta potential were determined by dynamic light scattering. The study of the dynamics of sanguinarine release was conducted using the method of dialysis; quantitative analysis of the released sanguinarine from liposomes was performed using reverse-phase HPLC. The cytotoxic activity (CTA) of liposomal preparation against tumor cells of human breast carcinoma MCF-7 line was determined by the MTT assay. The toxicity and biological effects of liposomal sanguinarine on the cultures of Paramecium caudatum Ehrenberg and Tetrahymena pyriformis WH1, as well as the study of the effect of the drug on the complement system, were evaluated using the automated video registration system “BioLaT” (Russia). According to electron microscopy data, the obtained liposomes were spherical nanosized particles (See Fig. 1). The mean size of the obtained liposomal particles with sanguinarine included in their composition, determined using the method of the dynamic light scattering, was 108.5±2.2 nm, and the zeta potential was –34.7±1.4 mV. The effectiveness of sanguinarine inclusion in liposomes was quite high and amounted to 72.8±4.8%. The study of the dynamics of sanguinarine release from liposomes in conditions close to physiological (pH 7.4; 37°C) showed that this process occurs at the highest rate in the first 2 h of incubation. Then, the process is prolonged (release of about 50% sanguinarine after 6 h of incubation, and about 93% after 70 h) (See Fig. 2). Liposomal sanguinarine showed dose-dependent cytotoxic activity against tumor cells of human carcinoma MCF-7 in the micromolar concentration range (Seе Fig. 3). The CTA of liposomal sanguinarine (IC 50 14.5 mM) was slightly lower than the activity of free sanguinarine (IC 50 9.4 mM), which can be explained by the prolonged release of sanguinarine from liposomes into the cell medium, as well as by the specificity of compartmentalization and intracellular release of the drug when it is absorbed by tumor cells by endocytosis. The prolonged release and the property of preferential accumulation of liposomes in tumor tissue can have a positive effect on therapeutic efficacy in the application of liposomal sanguinarine in vivo. The effect of liposomal sanguinarine on the survival of P. caudatum ciliates was dose-dependent (See Fig. 4). The minimum inhibitory concentration of liposomal sanguinarine was 0.49 mM. At concentrations from 0.245 mM and below, the drug did not cause cell death for 2 h; over the next 24 h, the death of the ciliates was neither observed. Thus, liposomal sanguinarine has a pronounced cytotoxic effect on P. caudatum, a representative of the protozoa, which can serve as the basis for the development of antiprotozoal drugs. To identify pathogenic Protozoa species spectrum vulnerable to the action of liposomal sanguinarine, additional research is required. We also assessed the influence of liposomal sanguinarine on the protective blood systems - coagulation and the complement system. The effect of liposomal sanguinarine on thrombus formation in vitro was evaluated in citrate plasma after its recalcification according to the time of the onset of thrombus formation and the resulting clot density (See Fig. 5). The clot size in plasma solutions with the addition of the drug was significantly smaller compared with the control. At the same time, liposomal sanguinarine induces the formation of a clot after 7 min of incubation, whereas in the control the formation of a clot begins only after 14 min of incubation. Thus, under the conditions of this experiment, liposomal sanguinarine had a pronounced stimulating effect on thrombus formation. Stimulation of thrombosis by liposomal sanguinarine can be caused both by direct activation of coagulation enzymes and by the induction of enzymatic reactions of the coagulation system, which can efficiently proceed on the surface of liposomal nanoparticles. The study of the effect of liposomal sanguinarine in a non-toxic concentration of 60 ng/ml on the functional activity of the complement system against T. pyriformis ciliates showed that the half-life of the ciliates as a target of the complement system in the medium containing serum and liposomal sanguinarine (T 50 21.7 min) reduced approximately twice compared with the control (T 50 41.6 min) (See Fig. 6). In the absence of serum in the samples, liposomal sanguinarine at a concentration of 60 ng/ml, on the contrary, had a stimulating effect on T. pyriformis growth - the value of the proliferation coefficient for native cells was 2.1±0.2, and for the treated cells it was 6.4±0.8. The obtained data may indicate the activating effect of liposomal sanguinarine with respect to the assembly of the membrane attack complex of the complement system on the surface of T. pyriformis cells, causing their death. This effect allows to envisage the prospect of using liposomal sanguinarine as an immunostimulating agent. Thus, the pronounced cytotoxic antitumor and antiprotozoal activity, demonstrated in experiments in vitro, makes it possible to consider liposomal sanguinarine as a promising antitumor and antiprotozoal agent. The detected effect of thrombosis stimulation by liposomal sanguinarine seems to be important when selecting the dose of the drug introduced into the bloodstream.

© 2018 Ima-Press Publishing House. All Rights Reserved. Up to 15% of patients with secondary brain tumors of unknown primary are admitted to a neurosurgery department. Identification of a primary tumor site on the basis of surgical material immunophenotyping in routine clinical practice has a significant potential; however, this requires systematization. Objective: to detect the primary focus of brain carcinoma. Patients and methods: Surgical specimens from 7 patients with brain tumor of unknown primary were investigated using light optical microscopy and an immunohistochemical (IHC) panel including EMA, CK AE1/3, CK7, CK5/6, GFAP, S-100, Vimentin, p63, TTF-1, Uroplakin III (UPIII), CDX2, and Her2/neu. Results and discussion: A study using the IHC panel made it possible to obtain the following tumor phenotypes in the patients: CK5/6+, p63+, CK7+, UPIII+ (urothelial cancer) (n=3); CK5/6-, CK7+, TTF-1+, CDX2- (lung adenocarcinoma) (n=2); CK5/6+, p63+, CK7-, UPIII, TTF-1- (squamous cell carcinoma) (n=1), and CK5/6-, CK7+, TTF-1-, CDX2-, Her2/neu+ (breast cancer) (n=1). Evidence of the primary focus of the tumors was subsequently confirmed by instrumental techniques in all cases when cancer of the breast, lung and urinary system was directly sought. The findings were used to elaborate an algorithm for the differential diagnostic immunophenotyping of brain metastases. Conclusion: The primary focus of brain carcinoma was detected in all cases on the proposed IHC panel. The systematized algorithm for differential diagnostic immunophenotyping can be used in clinical practice.

© 2018 Russian Electronic Journal of Radiology.All right reserved. Purpose: This article is dedicated to analysis of use PET-CT with 18F-FDG for the last 10 years. Determining the presence of metastasis in regional lymph nodes and distant sites in endometrial cancer is an important diagnostic step aimed at the choice of treatment tactics and improvement of surgical treatment results. If the process is beyond the uterus itself, it significantly worsens the prognosis of survival. In addition, in these cases, it is necessary to change the treatment and surgical tactics. Determination of stage 1 and 2 of the process gives an optimistic prognosis for the survival of patients. Currently, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging and, to a much lesser extent, computed tomography are used to assess the prevalence of the process. The diagnostic value of these methods according to some authors does not exceed 66-73%. In this regard, it is justified to work on finding more reliable methods that will more accurately determine the presence of metastatic disease in, both regional lymph nodes and distant organs. One of such promising methods is the use of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT), using as radiotracer 18 - fluorodeoxyglucose. This article is a review of the scientific literature on this problem over the past 10 years and is devoted to the evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of PET/CT with 18F-FDG.

© 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. The robotic technologies every day exert an increasingly greater influence on the surgical technique, with the well documented clinical applicability in reconstructive plastic surgery and oncology. At the Department of plastic surgery of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow state medical university, we have gained an extensive experience with the surgical treatment of the patients requiring the major oral robotic intervention. A novel application has recently been documented for the purpose of robotic surgical assistance to the patients presenting with oncological pathology including cancer of the oropharyngeal wall at the early stages of development (T1N0M0). The objective of the present study was to develop and introduce into the clinical practice of the robot-assisted methods for the treatment of malignant neoplasms of the head and neck organs. A hybrid technique was applied, i.e. the combination of the robot-assisted trans-oral surgical intervention and the microsurgical radial flap mobilization to correct the postoperative defect following the extraction of the tumour. The combination of these methods provided the excellent clinical results and positive dynamics of the patients’ condition, with the swell apparent improvement of the quality of life. The early patient activation was due to the application of the minimally invasive transoral surgical technique, with the swallowing ability being reinstated within 14 days after the intervention by virtue of the proper flap function. All the patients successfully underwent the robot-assisted surgical manipulations without complications. The shorter rehabilitation time during the postoperative period in these patients made it possible to quicker initiate chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This significantly improved the patient’s quality of life and prognosis due to the combined approach to the treatment of head and neck oncology. It is concluded that the incorporation of the robotic assistance into the program of surgical treatment significantly increases the effectiveness of the treatment and makes possible the combined approach to the treatment of oncological patients with manageable tumours of the head and neck region.

© 2018 Onkopediatria. All rights reserved. Background. Analysis of statistical data in the federal districts of the Russian Federation provides opportunities to assess the quality of medical care delivery in children with cancer and plan further development with consideration for the point elimination of existing defects. Objective. Our aim was to analyze the main indicators characterizing medical care for children with cancer in the North-West Federal District. Methods. The study analyzed operative reports for 2017 provided by the executive public health authorities of 11 subjects of the Russian Federation affiliated to the North-West Federal District. Results. The pediatric population was 2 537 133 children (0-17 years), the pediatric oncological bed capacity - 174 (0.7 per 10 000 aged 0-17 years), the annual berth average occupancy - 290.7 days. 6 (54.5%) subjects did not provide pediatric population with departments of pediatric oncology, 4 (36.4%) subjects did not have bed capacity. The number of practitioners providing medical care to children with cancer was 38, 27 among them (71%; 0.1 per 10 thousand 0-17 years) had a certificate of pediatric oncologist. 2 (18.2%) subjects did not have pediatric oncologists in the medical stuff. The incidence of malignant tumors in children aged 0-17 was 15.6 (per 100,000), the prevalence was 92.6 (per 100,000), the mortality rate was 2.6 (per 100,000), one-year mortality rate - 4.5% (18/397). The number of patients identified actively was 11 (2.8%). 160 (40.3%) primary patients were sent to Federal medical facilities, 6 (1.5%) - left the territory of the Russian Federation for the further treatment. Conclusion. The incidence and mortality rates are rather low which indicates the defects in patient detection and lack of reliable follow-up data. The percentage of patients referred for treatment to Federal medical facilities is not very high; however, to interpret this indicator according to patient routing, we have to analyze the medical history of all the patients. We can assert that health care delivery service for children with oncological diseases is at an acceptable standard level but needs to be improved.

© ABC-press Publishing House. All rights reserved. Today it is noted that the most cases of the hypospadias, cryptorchidism, testicular microlithiasis, as well as problems of semen quality and testicular germ cell tumours can be a clinical manifestation of testicular dysgenesis syndrome caused by abnormal development of reproductive organs. In the last decade, technological progress in the molecular genetics has made possible to carry out a directed search for genetic factors associated with reproductive disorders in men. In the review we attempted to analyze available literature data on the testicular dysgenesis syndrome and its constituent condition and also to consider the risk factors associated with its development. We give particular attention to the consideration of genetic factors that determine the manifestation of testicular microlithiasis, cryptorchidism and testicular germ cell tumors, both individual clinical conditions and in the syndrome of testicular dysgenesis. Knowledge of the genetic aspects of reproductive damage will allow us to characterize the complex interconnection of the human genome with the clinical phenotype, clarify the role of unfavorable factors of the environment and the lifestyle of the individual, and suggest new approaches to treatment.

© 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Solid pseudopapillary tumor is a low-grade malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The clinical manifestations are variable, ranging from an asymptomatic course to cases with severe symptoms that dramatically impair the patients’ status. The paper describes the rare case of a solid pseudopapillary tumor in a 34-year-old woman, which was accompanied by difficulties in the interpretation of clinical data and morphological patterns.

© 2018 National Academy of Pediatric Science and Innovation. All rights reserved. Solid tumors in children occupy the second place in the structure of morbidity, yielding to hemoblastosis. Among solid tumors, approximately 5% are bone sarcomas: osteosarcoma (3%) and Ewing's sarcoma (2%). Atypicality of the course of these diseases makes it difficult to diagnose them early. The article describes a series of clinical observations of patients with bone sarcomas, which illustrate the complexity of diagnosing diseases of this group.

© 2018, SPb RAACI. The theory of polyetiological tumorigenesis is one of the most important theories of carcinogenesis. A great place in this theory is given to the role of inflammatory component, which is implemented via the factors of innate immunity. I.e., toll-like receptors (TLRs), chemokines and their receptors are related to innate immunity. Activation of TLRs may lead to regress or progression of cancer process. It is known that TLR3, TLR5, TLR7, TLR9 have the greatest anti-Tumor effect due to the dendritic cells (DCs)-mediated activation of type I T helpers, activation of M1-Type macrophages and Treg inhibition. Stimulation of TLR2 and TLR4 exerts an activating effect upon the tumor, by the MyD88 hyperactivation and secretion of IL-6 and TNFα, but exact mechanisms are not fully understood. In addition to TLRs, chemokines and their receptors have a great influence on the cancer development. It is shown that CCL2, CCL4, CCL17, CCL22 and CXCL12, which are secreted by cancer microenviroment, activate chemotaxis of tumor cells. It is also known that the chemokines activate CXCR4 and CCR7 (expressed by tumor cells) thus leading to metastasis. It is shown that there is an association between some gene polymorphisms of TLRs', chemokines and their receptors, and development of cancer. Thus, we may conclude that the role of TLRs and chemokines is important in oncogenesis. Further study of innate immunity factors influencing tumorigenesis are important for finding new approaches to cancer therapy and new potential vaccines against cancer.

© Bionika Media Ltd. Background. Ovarian cancer develops from benign tumors in 80% of cases during long-term follow-up. According to the literature, the incidence of giant ovarian cystadenoma is extremely low. There are difficulties in verifying these ovarian tumors. Description. The paper describes a rare clinical case of a 54-year-old patient with giant ovarian cystadenoma. It depicts the patient’s clinical, medical history, laboratory, and instrumental data and demonstrates the technical complexities of surgery and the features of postoperative management. Conclusion. The early diagnosis and timely treatment of ovarian tumors will be able to avoid technically difficult surgical interventions and to minimize postoperative complications, which will substantially improve the prognosis of the disease. Such operations should be performed by a surgeon having extensive surgical experience and high qualification.

© 2018 Onkopediatria. All rights reserved. Background. Analysis of medical care delivery for children with cancer in armed conflict is highly important because the high-tech treatment in this context is extraordinary difficult and challenging task. Objective. Our aim was to analyze the morbidity and mortality rates in children with malignant tumors, to assess the pediatric patient capacity and medical service density in the Donetsk People's Republic. Methods. The ecological study was conducted where the units of analysis were represented by the aggregated data of the Republican Cancer Registry on the number of primary and secondary patients with malignant and benign tumors, the deceased patients in the DNR in 2014-2017, pediatric patient capacity, and medical service density. Results. The number of pediatric patient capacity for children with cancer was 10 (0.27 per 10,000 children aged 0-17), pediatric patient capacity for children with hematological disorders - 40 (1.37 per 10,000 children aged 0-17). The treatment of children with cancer was performed by 5 healthcare providers: 1 pediatric oncologist (0.02 per 10,000 children aged 0-17), 3 hematologists (0.08 per 10,000 pediatric population aged 0-17), and 1 practitioner who did not have a specialist certificate in oncology. Morbidity rate for malignant neoplasms from 2014 to 2017 decreased by 25% (in 2014 - 9.6 per 10,000 children aged 0-17; in 2017 - 7.2). In the morbidity structure, the incidence proportion of hemoblastoses was 68.4%, brain tumors - 2.6%, other solid tumors - 29%. The death rate due to malignant neoplasms decreased by 37% (in 2014 - 2.7; in 2017 - 1.7). Conclusion. Low levels of the incidence rate and pattern of morbidity indicate defects in the identification and recording of patients. This explains the performance of the bed: low average bed occupancy per year and low turnover. For a reliable analysis of mortality statistical data is not available: in 2014-2015 only the number of in-hospital deceased patients is presented. Limited data is due to the lack of reliable patient catamnesis which is explained by the high rate of population migration.

© 2018 Paediatrician Publishers, LLC. All rights reserved. At present, there is no reliable statistical data (morbidity, mortality, one-year mortality, etc.) that characterize the state of medical care for children with cancers in the Russian Federation seen in due to the lack of an universal electronic database of patients. Objective. Improve the reliability of statistical data. Methods. In the clinical practice of two pilot medical facilities, an electronic database of pediatric cancer patients was introduced which allows: keep patient records with a diagnosis, key dates, follow-up data; analyze the treatment received earlier and assess its quality; make a treatment plan; obtain information on the availability of beds and the number of patients in various medical facilities; perform medical consultations involving the of specialists of the third level medical institutions. Patient (or legal representatives of the patient), has access to the «private cabinet » which provides information on the treatment plan including a schedule for taking medicines, as well as routing possibilities. Results. In the period of 6 months (09.17-02.18), information on 75 patients who received treatment from 2017 to the present was put into the electronic database. Conclusion. The electronic database provides reliable statistical data, helps monitoring the quality of medical care and routing patients. This results in reducing the budget costs and improving the survival of patients.

© Bionika Media Ltd. Endometriosis affects up to 15% of reproductive-aged women. Consideration of this nosological entity in a new aspect is impelled by the evidence that 0.5–1% of cases develops endometriosis-associated ovarian neoplasms that are more represented by the endometrioid and clear-cell subtypes of tumors. This category also includes seromucinous ovarian tumors (SMOTs). Objective. To investigate the morphological and immunohistochemical (IHC) features of SMOTs in reproductiveaged women, including pregnant ones. Subjects and methods. Ovarian tumor samples from 15 patients who had been operated on in 2012-2016 were analyzed comprehensively at the National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology: IHC examination was conducted using the biomarkers of estrogen and progesterone receptors and Ki-67. Results. Borderline SMOTs were characterized by papillary growths on the inner surface (in one case) and on the outer surface, with an adhesive process with the serous surface of the corpus uteri (FIGO Stage 1c), and mixed epithelial structures; leukocyte infiltration was observed in 4 cases. The epithelium of seromucinous carcinoma (n = 1) was similar to that of serous, endocervical, and endometrial types at the same time. All the samples exhibited a low Ki-67 expression and high positive receptor immunoreactivity. Endometriosis diagnosed in nine women was accompanied by benign seromucinous cystadenomas (n = 4), borderline tumors (n = 4), and carcinoma (n = 1). Conclusion. Most of the examined SMOTs showed the areas, covered with the endometrioid epithelium, with adjacent endometrial stroma, which indicated the development of carcinoma in the presence of endometrioid cyst. The revealed facts suggest that endometriosis plays an etiological role in developing SMOTs. When detected, most neoplasms are localized (limited to ovarian tissue, FIGO stage 1a) and characterized by a favorable prognosis as a whole.

© 2018 Paediatrician Publishers, LLC. All rights reserved. Background: Moscow and St. Petersburg are cities of federal significance with the largest number of children and consequently a large number of primary patients identified annually. Objective: Our aim was to analyze the main indicators characterizing the delivery of medical care for children with cancer in cities of federal significance. Methods: The operative reports for 2013–2017 of the Department of Health of Moscow, the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region, the Health Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg, and the Health Committee of the Leningrad Region were analyzed. Results. In 2013–2017 in the Russian Federation, 18 090 primary patients were identified, 2734 (15.1%) of them in the analyzed subjects: in Moscow — 1315 (7.3%), in the Moscow Region — 492 (2.7%), in St. Petersburg — 697 (3.9%), in the Leningrad Region — 230 (1.3%). For 5 years, the number of primary patients increased in Moscow by 18.1%, in St. Petersburg — by 36%, in the Leningrad Region — by 2.5%. In the Moscow Region, the number of primary patients decreased by 2.3%. The incidence in Moscow increased by 5.3% (from 11.3 per 100 000 of children aged 0–17 in 2013 to 11.9 in 2017), in St. Petersburg — by 18.1% (from 14.9 in 2013 to 17.6 in 2017). The incidence in the Moscow Region fell by 20% (from 11.8 in 2013 to 9.4 in 2017), in the Leningrad Region by 4.9% (from 14.4 in 2013 to 13.7 in 2017). Mortality in 2016–2017 in Moscow decreased by 37.5% (from 6.4 per 100 thousand children’s population 0–17 years to 4), in the Moscow Region — by 50% (from 2 to 1), in St. Petersburg increased by 50% (from 2 to 3), in the Leningrad Region — by 12.5% (from 2.4 to 2.7). The one-year mortality rate in Moscow increased by 3.7% (from 8.3% in 2016 to 12% in 2017), in the Moscow Region — by 3.5% (from 5.4 to 8.9% %), in St. Petersburg — by 3.9% (from 2.5 to 6.4%). In the Leningrad Region, the one-year mortality rate decreased from 6.5% in 2016 to 0 in 2017. The number of pediatric oncological beds did not change in the Moscow Region (0.4 per 10,000 children aged 0–17 years), St. Petersburg (0.9), and the Leningrad Region (0). In Moscow and St. Petersburg patients were not identified actively in 2016–2017; in the Moscow Region, their percentage decreased from 34.2 to 7.3, in the Leningrad Region — from 8.7 to 0. In Moscow, the number of pediatric oncological beds increased by 50% (from 0.6 to 0.9). The number of oncologists increased in the Moscow Region from 0.009 per 10 000 children aged 0–17 years to 0.06 (66.7%), in St. Petersburg from 0.09 to 0.12 (+33.3%), in the Leningrad Region — from 0 to 0.03. In Moscow, the number of pediatric oncologists decreased from 0.13 to 0.11 (-15.3%). Conclusion: Defects of statistical data were revealed. Patients were not identified during routine preventive examinations which indicate a low oncologic alertness of district pediatric physicians. Delivery of medical care for children with cancer and the statistical data accumulation procedures should be improved.

© 2018 Russian Electronic Journal of Radiology.All Rights Reserved. agnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MNP) show great potential as the contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Purpose. To evaluate the efficiency and safety of the contrast agent based on HSA-coated MNP on the model of the C6 glioma. Materials and methods. Extensive preclinical research of specific activity has been performed. Studies were conducted on the model of the orthotopic C6 glioma. Results. In the preclinical studies, it was demonstrated that HSA-coated magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MNP-HSA) accumulate in the tumor and its large vessels. Conclusion. Magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent allows visualization of the tumor tissue and its vascularization.

© 2018 SPIE. We have proposed a wavelet-domain de-noising technique for imaging of human brain malignant glioma by optical coherence tomography (OCT). It implies OCT image decomposition using the direct fast wavelet transform, thresholding of the obtained wavelet spectrum and further inverse fast wavelet transform for image reconstruction. By selecting both wavelet basis and thresholding procedure, we have found an optimal wavelet filter, which application improves differentiation of the considered brain tissue classes-i.e. malignant glioma and normal/intact tissue. Namely, it allows reducing the scattering noise in the OCT images and retaining signal decrement for each tissue class. Therefore, the observed results reveals the wavelet-domain de-noising as a prospective tool for improved characterization of biological tissue using the OCT.

© COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. We have performed the in vitro terahertz (THz) spectroscopy of human brain tumors. In order to fix tissues for the THz measurements, we have applied the gelatin embedding. It allows for preserving tissues from hydration/dehydration and sustaining their THz response similar to that of the freshly-excised tissues for a long time after resection. We have assembled an experimental setup for the reflection-mode measurements of human brain tissues based on the THz pulsed spectrometer. We have used this setup to study in vitro the refractive index and the amplitude absorption coefficient of 2 samples of malignant glioma (grade IV), 1 sample of meningioma (grade I), and samples of intact tissues. We have observed significant differences between the THz responses of normal and pathological tissues of the brain. The results of this paper highlight the potential of the THz technology in the intraoperative neurodiagnosis of tumors relying on the endogenous labels of tumorous tissues.