Gastric banding, a surgical method of treating morbid obesity: preliminary report.

Gross overweight in 15 patients was treated by a new method called gastric banding. The operative procedure is described. The technique is simpler than other procedures such as gastric bypass and gastroplasty.

Diagnosis and tactics in abdominal injuries.

Abdominal trauma has a high priority in the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with multiple injuries. Both blunt and penetrating injuries may be isolated or multiple and they are often combined with extraabdominal trauma. A close cooperation between surgical and other specialties is often needed.

Operative treatment of pertrochanteric fractures of the femur: report of a three-year series.

A series of 70 consecutive patients with pertrochanteric fractures of the femur treated by condylo-trochanteric (C-T) nailing is reported. Patients' ages ranged from 54 to 96 years, and they were followed up for 4 to 32 months. The mortality rate was 1.

Traumatic haematuria in supernumerary hydronephrotic kidney. A case report.

A 27-year-old man had macroscopic haematuria following a blow to the right side of the abdomen. Intravenous pyelography showed narrowing and lateralisation of the right renal pelvis and suggested rupture and fragmentation of the right kidney. Surgical exploration, however, revealed massive hydronephrosis in a supernumerary kidney.

Intussusception as a complication of partial gastrectomy. A case report.

The causes of postgastrectomy syndrome are multiple and differ in their relative frequency. Among the more unusual is intussusception of the small bowel into the stomach or into the jejunojejunostomy. We describe a patient with acute retrograde intussusception of the efferent loop into the jejunojejunostomy occurring 14 months after partial gastrectomy with Billroth II anastomosis.

Critical polytraumatization of a patient by a low-velocity gunshot. Case report.

A case report of a 15-year-old boy hit by a single low-velocity gun shot is presented. He sustained injuries to the small bowel, colon, appendix, iliac vessels, femoral nerve and ureter. The injury mechanism and the treatment are discussed, and the importance of exploring a retroperitoneal hematoma is emphasized.

Segmental tibial shaft fractures.

A series of 54 cases with multiple fractures of the tibia is reported. Sixty-eight per cent of the group were pedestrians hit by a car. Fifty-two per cent were open fractures.

Porous ceramics as a bone substitute in the medial condyle of the tibia. An experimental study in sheep.

A new porous ceramic material was tested for possible use as a bone substitute in regions exposed mainly to compressive forces. The porous ceramics were implanted into the medial condyle of the tibia of four sheep and left in position for 3 months. The operated tibia was then removed and sections were made of the implants.