Surgical treatment of rectal cancer: results of a strategy for selective preoperative radiotherapy.

Aim: The indications for preoperative adjuvant therapy in rectal cancer are still a subject of debate. The objective of this study was to analyze the results of surgical resection and selective radiotherapy in a group of high-risk patients (Dukes B and C) taken from a series of 148 consecutive patients with rectal cancer.

Methods: All patients with rectal cancer considered for resection during the period 1994-2004 were prospectively included.

[Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis: a rare cause of gastrointestinal ischemia and bleeding].

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are frequent in patients with severe immunodeficiency. We report a case of isolated digestive localization in a young woman initially non-immunocompromised. Initially, she was admitted in the intensive-care unit for a severe post-operative shock secondary to a respiratory distress syndrome.

[Aerobilia: a rare consequence of anaerobic acute cholecystitis: a case report].

Acute acalculous cholecystitis is rare in non critically ill or postoperative patients. We report a case of acute acalculous cholecystitis with secondary bile infection with Clostridium perfringens. Ultrasound and tomodensitometry revealed diffuse aerobilia.