[Ablation of haemorrhoids by cryosurgery in high risk patients (author's transl)].

A group of 48 patients of differing age and sex, suffering from 3rd degree hemorrhoids with pulmonary, cardiac or renal disease, epilepsy or scleroderma, so that the traditional operation under general anaesthesia is contraindicated, is examined. Cryosurgical haemorrhoidectomy, without hospitalisation, under local anaesthesia of anal sphincter led in all these patients to cure verified rectoscopically 2-3 months after the operation. The postoperative course was entirely normal, with pain symptoms that were sharp in 7 cases, limited in 14.

[Cancer of the breast in pregnancy].

The Authors discuss the incidence of mammary carcinoma in the course of pregnancy and its treatment. On the strength of their own experience as well as in the light of published data, they advocate prompt and complete local and regional treatment by surgery and irradiation whenever possible. In their opinion, the concomitant pregnancy does not constitute a contraindication.