[Treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts with ultrasound-guided percutaneous puncture and drainage].

The authors have treated 37 pancreatic pseudocysts in 36 patients by ultrasonically guided percutaneous puncture and drainage. The indication for intervention was rapid enlargement or threatening rupture of the acute (younger than 6-8 weeks) pseudocysts with recurring fever in 5 cases and chronic pseudocysts causing abdominal symptoms in 32 cases. After puncture six of seven patients were recuperated, but later in three of them the pseudocysts recurred.

[Typhlitis as a complication of acute leukemia].

The authors describe the clinical history of two adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia, who had severe neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. After chemotherapy in both patients had developed typhlitis with fatal outcome caused by sepsis. They discuss the etiopathogenesis and clinical features of necrotizing typhlitis as a complication of treated acute leukemia and point out the difficulty of the differential diagnosis and management.

[The role of intraoperative angioplasty performed simultaneously with reconstructive vascular surgery].

21 arterial lesions were dilated intraoperatively in conjunction with primary vascular reconstructive procedures. Of these, five involved the iliac vessels, fourteen the femoropopliteal segment, one the subclavian artery and one the common carotid artery. 19 intraoperative balloon dilatations were successful and two were unsuccessful.

[Reconstruction possibilities in obliterative arterial diseases in diabetics].

Authors treated 144 diabetic patients with arterial angiopathy localised to the lower extremities. 114 cases belonged to III. and IV.

[Experience with the surgical treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis (varicophlebitis)].

107 patients with acute varicophlebitis of the lower limbs have been treated. In 101 cases operation were performed. These patients were treated by surgical excision of the thrombosed segments, with excision or stripping of the remaining varicosities and high saphena ligature.

[Management of malignant pleural effusion by tetracycline pleurodesis].

Eleven patients were treated with chest tube drainage and intrapleural instillation of tetracycline for malignant pleural effusion. In ten cases this procedure for 6-10 days achieved complete resolution of pleural fluid and produced pleurodesis. Only one patient needed longer treatment, but it was also successful.