[Usefulness of postoperative assay of arginase activity in blood serum of women after breast cancer resection].

The usefulness of arginase test was evaluated in follow-up of patients after breast cancer resection. The arginase activity was measured in blood serum of 970 patients from January 1996 to December 2000. The arginase activity above the normal value was detected in serum of 539 (55.

Arginase in patients with breast cancer.

The mean arginase activity in breast cancers (n = 80) was significantly higher than in control tissues and it accounted for 0.31 +/- 0.23 U/g wet tissue and 0.

Preoperative chemotherapy in primarily inoperable cancer of the breast.

One hundred and sixty patients with primarily inoperable breast cancer entered the preoperative chemotherapy protocol. The majority of patients (156) received chemotherapy according to the Cooper regimen (CMFVp), the remaining four were treated by the FAC regimen. Subsequently, mastectomy was performed in all patients.

[Use of the greater omentum in the treatment of post-radiation necrosis of the whole thickness of the chest wall].

A case of a female patient with postradiation defect of the whole thickness of the chest wall is presented. Radiotherapy was used in breast cancer. Chest wall defect was closed with pedicled graft of gastrocolic omentum covered with free sin grafts.