Transrectal ultrasonography as a follow-up method in prostatic carcinoma after external beam and interstitial radiotherapy.

Transrectal ultrasonography and ultrasonometrics were employed for follow-up in a total of 28 prostatic carcinoma patients subjected to external beam or interstitial radiotherapy. These two methods permit more accurate staging of prostatic carcinoma and have also proved to be valuable in the follow-up care of patients suffering from locoregional prostatic carcinoma. Of the 20 patients subjected to external beam radiotherapy four patients initially did not show capsular infiltration, 2B2, 2A2, whereas 16 patients presented with infiltration of the capsule and seminal vesicles.

[Sonography as a new diagnostic procedure for resolving shoulder problems].

Eighty-one sonographic examinations of patients with complaints relating to the shoulder joint have shown that this is the method next in value to radiological examination. So far, lesions of the rotator cuff and of the long head of the biceps could only be demonstrated by invasive procedures such as arthrography or arthroscopy. In these situations, sonography attains a similar accuracy.

[Anterolateral meningocele].

The author gives a detailed description of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of a thoracic lateral meningocele associated with known neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease), using plain roentgenography, myelography and computed tomography.