Correspondence loum 779 his loss of time and waste of hospital time could have been avoided. Also the expenses of the numerous tribunals would have been lessened. The second example concerns a man whose carcinoma of the colon I removed several years ago. About two years before death, I removed the prostate. About two months before death he was readmitted with urinary infection. Cystoscopy, afte...

The tissue reaction to a functioning Molteno implant has been studied by light microscopy and by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The material was obtained from an aphakic 83-year-old human eye which required enucleation because of intractable bullous keratopathy, despite well controlled intraocular pressure. The tissue response around the silicone rubber tube was that of simple f...

In July-August of 2005-2008, 47 digenean trematodes were examined from 7 specimens of the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos (L., 1758). The digeneans were collected during a study on the food composition of the common sandpiper. The research was conducted near Lisewo Malborskie (near Tczew, Zuławy Wiślane, Gdańsk sea-coast), at a resting site on the birds' migration route. The foods ingested...

Melanoma is the most aggressive and treatment-resistant of all human skin cancers responsible for approximately 80% cancer mortalities. Melanoma, initiates within epidermis; during progression, cells invade into dermis become primary metastatic through blood vessels lymphatic system. First develop growth occurs by spreading to their draining nodes via vessels, but mechanism not fully understood...

A 55-day-old male baby underwent an exploratory laparotomy and a radical left nephro-ureterectomy with peri-hilar and para-aortic lymph nodal dissection for a left sided Wilms’ tumor. Postoperative course was smooth until 4thpostoperative day when mild abdominal distension and bilious nasogastric (NG) tube drainage of 95 ml was noticed. An x-ray abdomen was inconclusive while ultrasound (US) ab...

Approximately 1.5 million patients are diagnosed with pleural effusion each year in the United States. Clinical manifestations of pleural effusion include dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, cough, fever, fever, chills and weight loss and depending on the underlying disease. Diagnostic tools include chest radiograph, ultrasound, and computed tomography {CT).Ultrasound guided pigtail catheters as the...

OBJECTIVE Periprocedural intracranial hemorrhage secondary to intranidal flow redirection may develop after arteriovenous malformation (AVM) embolization. We hypothesized that continuous draining vein pressure monitoring may identify clinically relevant hemodynamic changes during devascularization. Our goal was to characterize the draining vein pressures in a swine rete mirabile AVM model durin...

The implant described in this communication is the direct descendent of a long series of artificial drainage devices which began when Zorab (I9I2) inserted a silk thread through the limbus in order to drain aqueous into the subconjunctival space in cases of glaucoma (see also Mayou, I9I2). Among the more recently described devices are teflon drainage tubes in man (Richards, I955; Epstein, 1959;...