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The authors present the value of transrectal endosonography in estimating infiltration of each layer of the rectum wall and neighboring organs and metastases into rectal lymphatic glands. The sensitivity of the examination in authors hands was about 83.7%. Authors prove the usefulness of endosonography in the proper assessment of the rectal cancer staging.
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Rectal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Endosonography/methods , Female , Humans , Lymphatic Metastasis , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Staging , Rectal Neoplasms/pathology , Sensitivity and SpecificityABSTRACT
Authors present gunshot damage of the chest and abdominal organs. The large number of wounded people particularly young men in the period of 12 years proves to have a widespread problem. They present an important of diagnostic examination, methods of surgical treatment complications and morbidity and mortality in the group of 627 patients.
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Abdominal Injuries/epidemiology , Thoracic Injuries/epidemiology , Wounds, Gunshot/epidemiology , Abdominal Injuries/diagnosis , Abdominal Injuries/surgery , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Incidence , Male , Middle Aged , Poland/epidemiology , Survival Rate , Thoracic Injuries/diagnosis , Thoracic Injuries/surgery , Wounds, Gunshot/diagnosis , Wounds, Gunshot/surgeryABSTRACT
The function of the gallbladder in 48 patients with cholecystolithiasis who were subjected Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) is reported in the paper. The measurements were obtained basing on ultrasonography before and after the treatment. The following parameters were estimated: maximal and minimal gallbladder volume, ejection time, ejection fraction and gallbladder ejection rate. It was concluded, basing on the obtained results, that the initial gallbladder function had no influence on the outcome of the treatment. The function of the gallbladder maintained weakened over the following six weeks after ESWL only in the patients in whom the treatment was unsuccessful.
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Cholelithiasis/therapy , Gallbladder Diseases/etiology , Gallbladder/physiopathology , Lithotripsy/adverse effects , Adult , Aged , Female , Gallbladder/diagnostic imaging , Gallbladder Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Gallbladder Emptying , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
The aim of the study was the estimation of heart muscle in response to air shock wave trauma. The animals were divided into four groups according to the time between trauma and the examination (3, 24, 48 and 120 hours). In all groups of animals ecg was performed and plasma level of creatinine kinase (CK), cardiac isoenzymes (CK-MB), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) and its isoenzymes (LDH1-2) and alpha hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBDH) were determined. CK-MB activity as a percent of CK activity and rate of LDH isoenzymes activity were calculated. Morphologic estimation of heart injury based on macroscopic observation, histology and coronarography of heart specimens was performed. It was revealed that pathologic changes in ecg indicating intracardial conduction disturbances occur most intensively in first ten minutes after trauma. Plasma CPK, LDH and LDH1-2 activity increased significantly after 120 hrs following trauma. Morphologic manifestation of heart damage was multifocal injury of heart muscle.
