Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) from the point of view of a general surgeon.

Authors present the current knowledge about pathology of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs), their symptoms and diagnostics. They present data about surgical and biological therapy of GISTs and relation between them based on literature. This work is supplemented with the own group of 16 patients with GISTs, treated on their surgical ward in years 2003-2008. General surgeon meets GISTs in unclear diagnosed tumours and when encountering their complications. Recurrent and metastatic tumours should be treated in centres (Tab. 6, Fig. 1, Ref. 24). Full Text in PDF www.elis.sk.

[Microscopic diagnosis of mixed and mesenchymal tumors of the mucosa and uterine body]. / Mikroskopická diagnostika zmiesaných a mezenchýmových nádorov sliznice a tela maternice.

A series of 452 with 831 precancerous and tumorous lesions of the corpus uteri is presented. The series was obtained by analyzing the authors' own series of bioptic findings covering the period of two years. Some problems arising at the evaluation of proliferating myogenic and stromal precancerous and tumorous lesions are pointed out. "Classical" types of leiomyomas were found to be predominant, amounting to 78.5% of tumors recorded at the studied site. Of the total number of tumors of the corpus uteri, malignant tumors constituted only 8.5%. On evaluating the series of malignant tumors of the corpus uteri epithelial malignant tumors (94.3%) were overwhelmingly prevailing over sarcomatous tumors. Attention is called to problems of histological evaluation of prognosis of mesenchymal and mixed tumors. Literary data as well as the authors' own observations indicate the necessity of exact and particularly of differentiated histological evaluation of the described tumors.