Clinical symptoms and sonographic follow-up after surgical treatment of nonparasitic liver cysts.

Background: The optimal treatment of nonparasitic liver cysts is still a topic of debate. Only symptomatic cysts are being considered as requiring treatment. Aim of this study is to evaluate our experience with this disease over the past ten years with a structured follow-up program.

Palliative portal vein stent placement for lymphatic recurrence of gastric cancer.

Introduction: Percutaneous transhepatic stenting of the main portal vein is a rare intervention.

Case Report: In the current patient, percutaneous angioplasty and stenting of a main portal vein stenosis due to lymphatic recurrence of gastric cancer ameliorated the progressing therapeutic restriction. The wall stent achieved portal venous patency that enabled ongoing chemotherapy.

[Value and sensitivity of abdominal ultrasound in preoperative histologic diagnosis before laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

In a retrospective study we compared the findings of our abdominal ultra-sound diagnostic of the gallbladder and the common bile duct with the results ot preoperative ERCP, intraoperative findings and the histological results. The test parameters were the size of the gallbladder, the number and the size of biliary calculi, the thickness and the constitution of the wall of the gallbladder and the consecutive grade of inflammation, the wideness of the common bile duct and the suspicion of a choledocholithiasis, respectively. In acute cholecystitis we performed laparoscopic cholecystectomy within 24 hours, in symtomatic cholecystolithiasis without cholecystitis an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

[Retrospective view of the development of surgical therapy of gallstones].

This paper gives a short historical overview of the evolution of biliary surgery from John Stough Bobbs (1867) until the present day. The development of different diagnostic methods (from cholangiography to sonography) are described also, as well as the different therapeutic methods including laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Hans Kehr (1862-1916) was a distinguished pioneer in the development of biliary surgery.

[Encounter of the Ernst von Bergmann and Erwin Payrs surgical schools at the Jena University Clinic].

This paper gives a short historical overview on the work of distinguished Professors such as Erich Lexer, Nikolai Guleke, Heinrich Kuntzen and Theo Becker, who worked in the Surgical University Hospital in Jena from 1911 to 1981. The main areas of their clinical and scientific activities are described, as well as the private and human qualities of these well-known personalities.