Surgical resection remains the cornerstone for the curative treatment of oncological disease. In a situation when a tumour encases a critical arterial or venous structure, long term oncological control may be achieved only through careful p…
Inflammation of the ileum - ileitis - is classically connected with Crohn's disease. But a wide variety of diseases is associated with inflammation of the ileum. These include inflammatory bowel disease, infections, spondyloarthropathies, v…
Endometriosis in less common locations can become a diagnostic pitfall both from the clinical and morphological point of view, as this diagnosis is only seldom considered in the first series of differential diagnoses. This was true also for…
The authors summarize possibilities of hormonal treatment of non-malignant diseases of the mammary gland. Attention is paid in particular to progestins (progesterone, derivatives of hydroxyprogesterone, derivatives of 19 nor-testosterone), …
The author investigated in a group of 12 premenopausal women with fibrocystic mastopathy with mastodynia, confirmed on mammography, the effectiveness of a synthetic ethisterone derivative--danazole. An objective effect (reduction of the num…