Effect of tumour and chemoradiotherapy on oesophageal motility.

Background: The contribution of dysmotility to dysphagia in oesophageal cancer is unclear.

Aim: To examine oesophageal motility in patients with oesophageal carcinoma and to assess the effect of chemoradiotherapy on motility.

Methods: Stationary manometry and 24-hour pH-metry were performed in 12 patients with oesophageal carcinoma and one week following completion of chemoradiotherapy using 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), cisplatin and 40Gy radiotherapy.

[Pancreatic pseudocysts (ultrasonic location data and their morphology at different periods of occurrence)].

The work makes parallels between findings of ultrasonic location and the morphology of pancreatic pseudocysts in different periods of their existence. According to results of a histological investigation the pseudocysts can be divided into those being formed (less than 3 months of their existence), formed (more than 3 months of their existence) and isolated ones (after 1-1.5 years).

[Importance of ultrasonic echolocation in the differential diagnosis and observation of the development of pancreatic pseudocysts].

Under observation there were 84 patients with pseudocysts of the pancreas, in 12 of them the main diagnostic method was ultrasonic echolocation. The differential diagnosis between the cyst and tumor was sometimes difficult. The most characteristic sign of the disintegrating tumor was a considerable and irregular thickening of the wall of the cavitary formation found.