ABSTRACT
77 livers of cancer patients were examined with nuclear scintigraphy (NS) and ultrasonography (US). The overall accuracy of NS was 86% and of US 87%. The place of NS and US in the investigation of liver metastases is discussed.
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Liver Neoplasms/secondary , Ultrasonography , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Diagnostic Errors , Female , Humans , Liver Neoplasms/diagnosis , Liver Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Male , Middle Aged , Radionuclide ImagingABSTRACT
Yeast bezoar seems to be a relatively common late complication after various gastric operations. The incidence of bezoar depends decisively on the nature of the operation. Vagotomy in particular is conducive to the formation of a bezoar. Vagotomy + Billroth I resection proveded the most propitious conditions for the growth of yeast, for every one-half of the patients in this group developed a bezoar. Yeast bezoars usually appear within a year of the operation. The majority disappear during the first follow-up year, many without any therapy. However, in some cases the bezoar was a rather inconvenient late complication of gastric surgery and one that gave symptoms. It is difficult to draw any definite conclusions concerning the effect of therapy on the disappearance of the bezoar. We used gastric lavage and antimycotics as well as substances that increase gastric acidity. There is still no known method of preventing the formation of yeast bezoars. In the present consensus, a change in the acid conditions and disturbed gastric motility postoperatively are conducive to the formation of a bezoar.
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Bezoars/diagnostic imaging , Postoperative Complications/diagnostic imaging , Stomach/surgery , Yeasts , Adult , Aged , Bezoars/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Gastrectomy , Gastroenterostomy , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Radiography , VagotomyABSTRACT
Phlebography and thermography of the lower limbs were performed on 58 patients suspected on the basis of clinical examination to have deep venous thrombosis of the lower limb. Both thermography and phlebography were consistently positive in 34 and negative in 17 cases. The skin temperature was lowered in four cases evidently because of an arterial spasm caused by deep venous thrombosis. No significant temperature elevation was established in three anamnestically and phlebographically older cases.
