[Comparison between conventional imaging methods and positron emission tomography in the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma].

Background: Positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose offers the possibility to differentiate between lymphoma and nonmalignant tissue. The aim of this retrospective study was a comparison between PET and conventional imaging methods before and after therapy--during the follow-up of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Methods And Results: The group of 94 patients with HL underwent 180 PET examinations.

[Traumatic rupture of the diaphragm in blunt injuries].

The authors present a group of 12 casualties operated on account of a traumatic rupture of the diaphragm. The rupture of the diaphragm was part of an associated thoracoabdominal injury or multiple injury. The casualties were examined within the framework of the diagnostic algorithm, in 11 of them rupture of the diaphragm was proved by spiral computed tomography.

[When is resection indicated in primary liver tumors?].

The development of hepatic surgery involved also definition of indications for resection in primary liver tumours. Based on an analysis of a group of 76 patients with primary liver tumours operated in 1978-2001 (up to the end of October) the authors evaluated the indication criteria for resection of primary hepatic tumours. As to benign tumours most frequently haemangiomas were resected (in 35 patients) and follicular nodular hyperplasia in 10 patients.

[Indications for emergency surgery in thoraco-abdominal injuries].

Purpose Of The Study: Under the conditions of an increasing number of car accidents and criminal injuries the thoracis and abdominal trauma is a source of a significant morbidity and mortality in blunt and penetrating mechanism of injury. On the basis of a group of patients operated on for blunt and penetrating injury of the chest and abdomen evaluation was made of the current indication and results of lifesaving surgery in case of these injuries.

Patients: The group included 68 patients requiring a lifesaving surgery for a blunt and penetrating injury of the chest and abdomen hospitalized between the beginning of 1966 and the end of April 2001.