[Therapeutic esophagoscopy based on a portal and preportal block in hemorrhaging varices of the esophagus and portal hypertension].

Parallel with the hitherto known methods of treatment of bleeding esophageal varicosities in portal hypertension with Seinkstaken-Blackmore's probe and by surgical approaches for controlling the hemorrhage from ruptured esophageal varicosities, such as Cryle's and Linton's operations, azigoportal deconnection by Tanner's technique, splenectomy, omentohepatoplexy, Sugiura's operation, esophagus ligation by the method of Fosschulte and V. Mateev (1983), the authors apply the method of transendoscopic sclerosification of bleeding varicosities in adults and children with cirrhosis of the liver and prehepatic block. The indications and contraindications of the method and the etiologic factors underlying portal and preportal block in adults and children (in adults--cirrhosis of the liver, in children--mostly preportal block secondary to portal vein thrombosis dating back to early childhood after exchange transfusion through the umbilical vein) are discussed.

[A case report of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome in childhood].

The clinical course, diagnosis and treatment of Peutz--Jeghers's syndrome in childhood are discussed and a case reported in a eight-year-old girl. The disease presented with skin and mucosal melanin pigmentation in the mouth, frequent colic-like abdominal pain, due to chronic recurrent invaginations. On operation, the cause of the invaginations appeared to be 11 polypous formations in small intestines (8) and in the large intestines (3), which were subjected to radical operative removal.