[Operation or intervention in advanced gallbladder carcinoma?].

In a retrospective study of patients with locally advanced or metastatic gallbladder cancer, we tried to define patient groups, that profit either from extended resection, palliative surgery or intervention. 102 out of 160 operative treated patients (73.8%) had UICC-tumor stages III and IV.

[Pre- and postnatal diagnostic imaging of congenital urinary tract disorders].

The prenatal diagnosis of urinary tract obstruction was made in 10 neonates. These findings were confirmed postnatally by sonography, urography, voiding cystourethrography, and scintigraphy. There were 8 neonates with unilateral obstruction of the ureter, and 2 with urethral valves and reflux.

[Foreign body aspiration in childhood: diagnostic problems].

The authors report on 33 children with aspirated foreign bodies not casting a shadow. These included 21 children who had been referred to hospital after more than 24 hours, in some cases only after weeks and months following aspiration or onset of symptoms, and in whom bronchoscopy was thus performed with considerable delay. The study shows that most of the patients presented a pathological x-ray pattern of the thoracic organs; but it also shows that even a "n.

[Esophageal obturator tube, a new method for emergency artificial respiration].

Since several years, there are reports from the USA about the esophageal obturator airway, a simple device for emergency ventilatory support in the unconscious patient. The simplicity of its use is of advantage and may easily be achieved by paramedics too (blind insertion into the esophagus without the need of a laryngoscope). The occlusion of the esophagus prevents gastric inflation as well as regurgitation, emesis and aspiration.