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A case report is given of a peritoneal pseudomyxoma originating from pseudomucineous cystadenomata of both ovaries. The diagnosis was established by peritoneoscopy and histological examination. Both ovaries were removed surgically and cytostatic treatment initiated thereafter; hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion was done as well. The patient lives after surgery now for more than a year without recurrence of the disease.
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Myxoma , Peritoneal Diseases , Ascites/drug therapy , Ascites/etiology , Cystadenoma/complications , Female , Fluorouracil/therapeutic use , Humans , Hydrazines/therapeutic use , Methotrexate/therapeutic use , Middle Aged , Ovarian Neoplasms/complications , Podophyllin/analogs & derivatives , Podophyllin/therapeutic use , Prednisolone/therapeutic useABSTRACT
An interdisciplinary study was carried out to determine the accuracy of contact thermography in the detection of breast cancer. 200 patients were examined in form of a blind test, the mammographic and clinical findings being listed separately and inaccessible to the thermography team. The findings obtained on contact thermography also were listed separately and afterwards compared with the clinical and mammographic findings. 50 out of these 200 cases required histological clarification, which revealed 24 carcinomas and 26 benign conditions of the breast. Mammography and contact thermography both failed to detect 3 out of the 24 carcinomas, clinical examination gave a false negative result in 2 cases. Therefore, in the present case material, the accuracy of mammography and contact thermography is equal and enables us to state that the combination of clinical examination and contact thermography of the breast is of high accuracy and suited for routine mass screening programmes to enable the detection of breast disease without radiation exposure.
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Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Thermography/standards , Breast Neoplasms/pathology , Diagnostic Errors , Female , Humans , Mammography , Mass ScreeningABSTRACT
A new method of autologous vein bypass with the nonreversed free transplanted great saphenous vein is described. By this technique, 53 patients received long femoropopliteal and 10 patients femorocrural bypasses, between March, 1973, and March, 1976. Patency rate was 88% after 1 year and 84% after 3 years. Operative procedure and results are reported in detail.
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Arterial Occlusive Diseases/surgery , Saphenous Vein/transplantation , Adult , Aged , Female , Femoral Artery/surgery , Humans , Leg/blood supply , Male , Methods , Middle Aged , Popliteal Artery/surgery , Transplantation, AutologousSubject(s)
Breast Neoplasms/enzymology , Colonic Neoplasms/enzymology , Hodgkin Disease/enzymology , Sialyltransferases/blood , Transferases/blood , Adult , Aged , Breast Neoplasms/surgery , Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/enzymology , Colonic Neoplasms/surgery , Female , Fibrosarcoma/enzymology , Hodgkin Disease/surgery , Humans , Middle Aged , Uterine Neoplasms/enzymologyABSTRACT
Two letal iatrogenic cardiac perforations by a subclavian catheter are reported. The cause of this rare but most serious complication is based on the sliding down of a subclavian catheter left in for 9 days in one case, in the other one on the introduction of a polyvinyl-catheter into the right ventricle.
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Catheterization/adverse effects , Heart Injuries/etiology , Aged , Female , Heart Ventricles/injuries , Humans , Iatrogenic Disease , Male , Malpractice , Middle Aged , Subclavian Vein , Vena Cava, SuperiorABSTRACT
Two cases are presented of the paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with a malignant tumour of the thyroid gland. The first case presented with a pseudomyasthenic syndrome (in conjunction with a haemangio endothelioma) and the second case with a form of neuromyopathy (in conjunction with a partly solid and partly hormone-producing thyroid carcinoma). The pathogenesis and classification of the so-called carcinomatous neuropathies is briefly outlined and the initially atypical course taken by the first case is discussed.
