[Continuous intestinal suture with polydioxanone].

Within five years a total of 264 anastomoses were performed on 241 patients in a continuous extramucosal single-layer end-on suture technique with polydioxanone. In 133 small bowel, and 131 colonic anastomoses there were no leakages as the only complications attributable to the procedure. Both anastomotic failures occurred after colonic resections, for a 1.

[Choledocholithiasis: risk factors and their significance for pre- and intraoperative diagnosis].

In 19% of the cholecystectomies done for acute cholecystitis, cholangitis and/or jaundice, an operative cholangiogram could not be obtained, usually because of considerable local inflammatory changes. This was the case in only 1.7% of the operations for uncomplicated cholelithiasis.

[The small intestine as a source of hemorrhage. A graduated protocol for diagnosis and therapy].

Within 21 years, 18 patients with acute small bowel hemorrhage were treated. Our results of pre- and intraoperative diagnostic procedures are reviewed critically. Based on bleeding activity and patient age, a decision tree for efficient diagnosis and therapy is proposed.

[Actinomycosis of the bladder].

A palpable tumour was discovered in the left lower abdomen of a 66-year-old woman with uncharacteristic lower-abdominal pain and treatment-resistant pollakisuria and stress incontinence. On ultrasound examination the tumour was about 6.0 x 2.

[The prevalence and significance of pseudodiverticulosis of the small intestine].

Diverticula of the small intestine were found in four among 358 consecutive major abdominal surgical procedures (1.1%). The prevalence rate was 4% among patients over the age of 70 years.