[Clinico-endoscopic diagnosis of cancer of the large intestine]. / Kliniko-éndoskopicheskaia diagnostika raka tolstoi kishki.

Appearance of the clinical signs of large-intestinal cancer usually demonstrates advanced stages of the process. Endoscopic polypectomy, along with screening and active follow-up of patients, can be one of the measures for identification and prevention of tumours in early terms.

[Combined endoscopic treatment of villous adenoma of the stomach and large intestine in middle-aged and elderly patients]. / Kombinirovannoe éndoskopicheskoe lechenie steliushchikhsia adenom zheludka i tolstoi kishki u bol'nykh pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta.

Electroexcision combined with laser photocoagulation was performed in 12 patients with creeping neoplasms of the stomach and in 39 patients with the same condition of the large intestine. One-year follow-up studies showed that 2 patients with a malignant gastric tumour had recurrence 9 months after the combined treatment; I patient has recurrence in the same terms after similar treatment of creeping benign adenoma. Combined treatment proved to be more effective in 39 patients with large-intestinal tumour, including invasive cancer, with no recurrence during a year. It follows that the effectiveness of combined treatment was 94.2 per cent.