A draft national clinical guidelines for spinal infectious lesions are submitted for discussion. Clinical guidelines are intended to optimize the diagnosis and treatment of infectious spondylitis and based on modern information about the pathology under consideration. The authors invite interested professionals to the discussion.

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Total lipid peroxidation and antioxidant activity were studied in pulmonary and mediastinal malignant and benign neoplasms. In malignant tumors total lipid peroxidation increased and antioxidant activity decreased; the intensity of these shifts depended on histological characteristics and degree of malignancy: the most pronounced changes were observed in thymoma and adenocarcinoma tissues and minimum changes were found in bronchoalveolar carcinoma tissue.