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Introduction. In the early hours and days after traumatic or surgical event it is essential to determine type of peripheral nerve injury accurately.Objective. To assess performance of diagnostic ultrasound (US) in patients with traumatic and intraoperative nerve injuries during the early hours and days after trauma or surgery.Materials and methods. 106 patients with clinical signs of extremity nerve injuries were included into the study. A total of 113 limb nerves were investigated with US.Results. US sensitivity in the detection of complete nerve rupture was 100% (95% CI: 39,8-100%), specificity — 99,0% (94,7100,0%); for nerve compression with the bone sensitivity was 100% (66,4-100%), specificity — 100% (96,3-100%); for nerve compression with fixation devices sensitivity was 100% (66,4-100%), specificity — 100% (15,8-100%) и 100% (88,4-100%).Conclusion. Nerve US is a reliable method for the evaluation of extremity nerve injury, the method can be recommended for use in the early hours and days after trauma or surgery.

AIM. To establish cut-off point of strain ratio for rectal adenocarciomas. PATIENTS AND METHODS. Forty-five patients (29 female) at mean age ± SD of 61 ± 9.5 (range, 38-80) years with histologically confirmed rectal neoplasia were included into study. Endorectal Ultrasonography accomplished by strain elastography was performed by Hitachi Hi Vision Preirus (Japan). All patients were treated by Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery. RESULTS. Pathologic examination of operative specimen revealed 31 adenomas (5 intraepithelial carcinomas) and 14 invasive carcinomas. Cut-off point of Strain Ratio was 5,7 with sensitivity of 0.94 (95 °%CI 0,68-0,99), specificity of 0.92 (95 %oCI 0,74-0,98), positive predictive value of 0,90 (95 % CI 0,84-0,96) and negative predictive value of 0,96 (95 %CI 0,85-0,99). CONCLUSION. Obtained results testified high diagnostic value of strain elastography and made one perspective method for detection of occult malignancy in large rectal adenomas.

In this paper we describe the operation and performance of the HERA-B Outer Tracker, a 112674 channel system of planar drift tube layers. The performance of the HERA-B Outer Tracker system fullfilled all requirements for stable and efficient operation in a hadronic environment, thus confirming the adequacy of the honeycomb drift tube technology and of the front-end readout system. The detector was stably operated with a gas gain of 30000 in an Ar/CF4/CO2 (65:30:5) gas mixture, yielding a good efficiency for triggering and track reconstruction, larger than 95 % for tracks with momenta above 5 GeV/c. The hit resolution of the drift cells was 300 to 320 micrometers and the relative momentum resolution can be described as: sigma(p)/p (in %) = (1.61 +- 0.02) + (0.0051 +- 0.0006) p. At the end of the HERA-B running no aging effects in the Outer Tracker cells were observed., Comment: 38 pages, 20 figures. v2: Added clarifications about trigger efficiency, momentum resolution and alignment precision. Corrected typos. Improved figure quality

The HERA-B Outer Tracker is a large detector with 112,674 drift chamber channels. It is exposed to a particle flux of up to 2 × 10 5 cm - 2 s - 1 thus coping with conditions similar to those expected for the LHC experiments. The front-end readout system, based on the ASD-8 chip and a customized TDC chip, is designed to fulfil the requirements on low noise, high sensitivity, rate tolerance, and high integration density. The TDC system is based on an ASIC which digitizes the time in bins of about 0.5 ns within a total of 256 bins. The chip also comprises a pipeline to store data from 128 events which is required for a deadtime-free trigger and data acquisition system. We report on the development, installation, and commissioning of the front-end electronics, including the grounding and noise suppression schemes, and discuss its performance in the HERA-B experiment.

An analysis is given of possible ways of achieving extremely high coordinate accuracy and two-track resolution in a drift chamber. A coordinate accuracy of 30 μm, and a two-track resolution of 100 μm have been obtained for a 10 mm drift distance with the drift precision imager prototype. A large solid angle vertex detector is also discussed.

Methods are described which are used for the synthesis of dimethylnitrosamine and diethylnitrosamine with a view to employing these substances for induction of tumors. The preparations were fed in drinking water to male albino rats of common breed. Eight months after the beginning of application of these preparations the experimental animals developed malignant tumors of the liver metastasizing to the lungs. The tumors are variable for their histological structure.