Carcinomas, mainly of the squamous cell type, may occur in burn scars from 3 months to 75 years after the burn injury, and they have a poor prognosis. Therefore, unstable scars, chronic ulcers and tumors must be subjected to histological ex…
Of a total of 146 restorative resections 129 one-stage anterior resections were performed in a series of 203 tumours of the rectum. The hand-sutured one-layer anastomosis, well established for the upper third of the rectum, can be equally w…
The number of patients with scar carcinoma of the oesophagus developing on the basis of a corrosive stricture seems to have been rising in the past two decades. 36 patients of this kind were treated surgically between 1965 and 1984; this is…
In ulcerative colitis, polyposis coli, deep seated cancer and other diseases of the rectum the bowel continuity can be restored without loss of continence, despite the removal of the entire ampulla recti. After proctocolectomy and ileoanost…