Bone changes in alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. A histomorphometric study.

The effects of alcoholic liver cirrhosis on the calcium, calciotropic hormones (parathyroid hormone and 25 hydroxy vitamin D) and testosterone were examined in twenty men. A transiliac bone biopsy was performed in each patient. A double tetracycline labeling was done in 17 patients.

[Myocardial infarction and rectocolonic polyps].

The prevalence of polyps in the rectum and sigmoid colon was estimated in 103 patients with recent myocardial infarction and 200 controls. All patients were asymptomatic and older than 35 years. A flexible proctosigmoidoscopy was performed.

[Endoscopic excision of malignant colorectal polyps. Study of a series of 82 cases].

The management of malignant colonic polyps removed by endoscopic polypectomy is a controversial subject. We reported a series of 81 patients with 82 malignant polyps removed by endoscopic polypectomy between 1977 and 1984. 15 polyps contained carcinoma in situ and were treated by endoscopic polypectomy alone.

[Value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of cirrhoses. Prospective study of 128 patients].

This prospective study was carried out in order to assess the accuracy of ultrasound in the diagnosis of cirrhosis. One hundred and twenty eight alcoholic patients were included. A careful ultrasonographic examination of the liver was performed before liver biopsy (100 patients).

[Ultrasound aspect of fascioliasis of the biliary tract].

Concerning two cases of biliary distomiasis, the authors describe the sonographic patterns leading to the ultrasonic diagnosis of this parasite. Gallbladder distomiasis appears as an echogenic, oval structure, without acoustic shadow. It characteristically displays mobility and variable shape.

A non-tumoral esophago-bronchial fistula managed by isobutyl-2-cyanoacrylate.

Non-tumoral esophago-bronchial fistulas are usually treated by gastrostomy. This case-report describes the endoscopic obstruction with an acrylate glue in a 75-year-old woman.

[Antibodies against gastric parietal cells in gastritis (author's transl)].

Antibodies directed against gastric parietal cells were investigated in the serum and gastric mucosa of 45 patients with gastritis, and the results were compared with those of standard histological examination and direct immunofluorescence studies on biopsy specimens. It was confirmed that the antibodies were more frequently found in the serum of patients with gastric atrophy (12/19) than in that of patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (6/13) or chronic superficial gastritis (2/13). In 8 cases of globulin material was detected by direct immunofluorescence test in the parietal cells of gastric mucosa sections.