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Colorectal cancer being the 4th most common cause of cancer death in which most arise from a preexisting adenomatous polyp. Among the various adenomas Giant villous adenoma (GVA) is less common. We came across a 65 years female with intermittent per rectal mucus discharge for last 10 years and intermittent fresh, painl…

BACKGROUND: Choledochal cysts are uncommon biliary lesions. Due to the evolution of imaging and laparoscopic surgery, we sought to describe our last 3 years experience with the presentation and management of choledochal cysts in adults. METHODS: A retrospective review of a prospectively established database of adults…

BACKGROUND: To determine the incidence of local recurrence, after curative resection for rectal cancer, with the application of total mesorectal excision (TME). PATIENTS AND METHODS: During the last ten years, 120 patients underwent curative resection for rectal cancer. As a rule, except for the cases that underwent h…

Two hundred four patients (117 females, 87 males; age range: 3-80 y) were admitted to our facility between May 1995 and June 1997 and studied to determine the endemicity of the Paederus species, which has been increasing for the last 6 years (especially in May and June) in the Cukurova region of southern Turkey. Clinic…

An outcrop within the last interglacial terrace on Barbados contains corals that grew during the penultimate deglaciation, or Termination II. We used combined 230Th and 231Pa dating to determine that they grew 135.8 +/- 0.8 thousand years ago, indicating that sea level was 18 +/- 3 meters below present sea level at the…

During the last 14 years, externally supported noncoated knitted Dacron grafts (EXS) and gelatin-coated knitted Dacron grafts with rings (GEL) were used in 176 patients for femoropopliteal bypass (F-P), femorofemoral bypass (F-F) and axillofemoral bypass (Ax-F). In the EXS group, 58 F-P above knee (ak), 42 below knee (…

Authors on the base of the study of clinical history and autopsy protocols of 260 patients died in 1974 in the Institute of Oncology of Hungary from oncological diseases established, that the proportion of decised younger 30 years and the number of those older 70 years increased in comparison with 1964. In the autopsy…

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to evaluate the indirect impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on diabetes-related lower extremity amputations. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients who underwent lower limb amputation due to complications of diabetes between August 2019 and February 2020 (control group…

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the long-term outcome of airflow obstruction in asthma of patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS). METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of 24 consecutive patients (aged 41.1 +/- 13.5 years) with CSS in a single center. All had asthma (starting 8.1 +/- 9.5 years prior to the…

Keloid and hypertrophic scars are relatively frequent not wanted consequences of surgical treatment. 145 patients with unsatisfactory skin healing were treated in our department during last 5 years. When compared with corticotherapy and laser-therapy kryotherapy is very effective method. There were outstanding results…

In the last 5 years, a powerful local area network was established in the Surgical Clinic of the Technical University of Munich. It is based on ATM and Ethernet technology. About 70 nodes including approximately 100 peripherals in our clinic have access to services around this network.

Our experience over the last 5 years with fasciocutaneous flaps in various areas of the body is described. Flap complications and special variations of the fasciocutaneous principle are discussed. Observations on our imperfect knowledge of the blood supply of the skin and deep fascia have been made and relevant experim…

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare disease of unknown etiology. Its onset is rarely in the last trimester of pregnancy but more often during the first 5 months after delivery. A hemodynamically well documented case from Switzerland with a follow-up period of 6 1/2 years is reported.

The development of chromosome banding techniques has made possible the detailed analysis of human chromosomes. A vast body of knowledge has accumulated during the last few years as a result of their application in biology and medicine.

The subsidence history of the Bahamian Platform points to a non-uniform rate of sea-floor spreading since the beginning of the Cretaceous. Lower Cretaceous rates of perhaps 5 cm/yr led to an active trench system at the boundary between the American and Caribbean lithosphere plates, and the rapid subsidence of the conti…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate dental caries prevalence amongst adults in Central Norway and assess changes over the last 45 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The cross-sectional HUNT4 Oral Health Study was conducted in 2017-2019. A random sample of 4913 participants aged ≥19 years answered questionnaires…

The clinical history of a man suffering from recurrent embolisms of the retinal artery is presented, extending over 11 years from the time when the patient was 57. The initial finding was a retinal artery embolism whose course was photographically recorded for an hour, until the emboli disappeared at the periphery. Thr…

The incidence of anastomotic recurrence after curative resection of colorectal cancer is relatively low compared to that of other types of recurrence, such as hepatic, lung and local recurrence. However, almost all cases of anastomotic recurrence of colorectal cancer occur within 3 years after surgery. We experienced a…