FOLIA ORIENTALIA XXIII (1985–1986)

Folia Medica Cracoviensia

We report a case of a giant pancreatic pseudocyst in a 33-year-old woman presenting with abdominal pain, loss of appetite and abdominal distension. CT scans revealed a giant pancreatic pseudocyst measuring 10.3 cm × 9.6 cm × 9.3 cm anteroposteriorly, with signifi cant compression of the stomach. An open retrogastric cystogastrostomy was performed through a midline incision, and 3 L of fl uid wa...

Folia Medica Cracoviensia

In 1995 the fi rst tracheosubmental intubation (TSI) in Poland was performed in the Clinic and Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków. Our 20 years of experience with using TSI in the fi eld of cranio-maxillofacial surgery, with 316 successfully performed intubations, resulted in one of the largest bodies of material analysed in the liter...

Bulbine Frutescens Folia

Characteristic features are: the leaf in T/S shows an epidermis of colourless, thickwalled, non-suberised cells, a band of photosynthetic and vascular tissue around the leaf perimeter (2+3), a central core of large thin-walled cells with contents staining pink-orange with KOH solution; yellow-green stomata and idioblasts containing bundles of calcium oxalate raphides (1), each up to 200μ long, ...

Folia Medica Cracoviensia

Th e aim of the study was to analyse the changes in BMI category between 7 and 16–18 years of age on the basis of continuous studies and evaluate which factors are related to the increase and decrease in BMI category. Data were collected from 1008 secondary school students aged 16–18 y. Body height and weight were measured and BMI was calculated. Information on height and body mass in earlier p...

Folia Therapeutica, a Quarterly Journal