[Subcutaneous mastectomy with reduction mammaplasty--challenge for the surgeon and possible alternative for breast cancer patients].

Introduction: Breast Cancer surgery with breast removal is associated with critical decrease in women quality of life. Oncoplastic surgery offer different techniques for removal of the tumor and remodelating the breast to achieve acceptable end results--oncological and aesthetical ones.

Material And Methods: We present the clinical case of M.

Breast-conserving surgery in early-stage breast cancer (indications, local recurrences, survival, cosmetic results).

Introduction: Breast cancer is an extremely actual problem in modern medicine and surgery in particular. Constantly growing frequency, younger age of the newly diagnosed patients, severe psychological collapse of the patients and serious impairment of quality of life are only some of the factors determining actuality of the problem.

Aim: The aim of the present survey is to make a retrospective comparative clinical analysis of the results obtained after breast-conserving surgery and simple mastectomy in terms of 5- and 10-year survival, local recurrences and cosmetic outcome.

Objective assessment of quality of life in female patients after esthetic, non-oncologic or oncologic surgery of their mammary glands--reality and perspectives.

Unlabelled: The World Health Organisation defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of a disease or infirmity. The female breast, surgically considered as a "troubled organ", can be affected by disorders of various types. Its normal morphology can be changed by deformities which may have a serious impact on the mental state of female patients.

[Clinical and microbiological characteristics of nosocomial infections according to material of the IIIrd Surgical Clinic, UMBAL "St. George"--Plovdiv, over a 10-year period].

Unlabelled: As a nosocomial (NI) infection we describe this one acquired in hospital due to proper conditions for spreading of virulent microbes. This is old problem with new vision in the field of use of powerful antibiotics and fast growth microbial resistance.

Aim Of The Study: To make an retrospective clinical investigation about the rate, type and etiology of NI as well as duration and outcome of treatment in our clinic and to compare the data with these quoted in literature.

Intraoperative identification of recurrent laryngeal nerves in thyroid surgery by electrical stimulation.

Introduction: Iatrogenic injury of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and its prevention is one of the controversial issues in thyroid surgery. The incidence of this operative complication ranges from 0.4% to 3.