[EFFECT OF INSTRUMENTAL SURGICAL FUSION ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS].

Objective: There is no internationally accepted guideline for treatment of spondylolisthesis in the literature, otherwise this degenerative disease has great social and economical impact. There is no hungarian study examining the efficacy of instrumented fusion procedure in surgical treatment of spondylolisthesis. In current study we examined the effectiveness of fusion technique focusing on the impact of quality of life.

Stingray barb injury: a cause of late coronary occlusion and stent failure.

Stingray injuries to the heart are rare, and survivors of this injury are even rarer. To date, there are only three reported survivors of this mode of penetrating cardiac injury, all inflicted by the living animal itself. The following is a report of a stingray injury, inflicted by a human, causing coronary complications 17 years after the injury was sustained.

[Usefulness of the tumor markers in the diagnosis of idiopathic deep venous thrombosis associated cancer].

Objective: To evaluate a wide detection of tumor markers practiced during admission for the diagnosis of cancer in patients with idiopathic deep venous thrombosis.

Material And Methods: Prospective study including 48 patients with documented DVT who lacked a predisposing cause to DVT. It was determined in serum: carcinoembryonic antigen, alphafetoprotein, CA 19-9, CA 125, beta-2-microglobulin, SCC (squamous cell antigen), NSE (neuron-specific enolase), PSA (prostate-specific antigen) in the males and CA15-3 in the women.

[Hipercalcemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Report of three patients (author's transl)].

Three out of 140 patients with non-hodgkin's lymphoma treated in a Department of Internal Medicine showed hypercalcemia during their clinical course. Hypercalcemia was symptomatic in two patients causing renal failure in one of them and a metabolic encephalopathy in the other. In the third case hypercalcemia was a casual finding.