[Lumbago and sciatica].

Low back pain, together woth shoulder and neck pain, affect millions of individuals, and is a very usual topic of concern. Frequently is associated with sciatica. Two different low back pain groups are reported: 1--Unspecific low back pain; 2--Organic low bck pain.

Hartmann's procedure for obstructive carcinoma of the left colon and rectum: a comparative study with one-stage surgery.

Introduction And Objectives: Despite the criticisms from prestigious expert committees, a high percentage of surgeons continue to use, as the technique-of-choice, Hartmann's procedure for acute malignant intestinal obstruction of the distal colon and rectum, without faecal peritonitis. We have reviewed our results with this technique and compared them with other series of patients in the literature undergoing one-stage surgery (resection with primary anastomosis or sub-total colectomy).

Material And Methods: A retrospective and descriptive study using clinical histories and, from which, the variables studied were: median hospitalisation stay, morbido-mortality and reconstruction index.

[Compendium of surgery].

The sane authors of the work titled "Treaty of Pathology and Surgical Clinic" of the Editorial McGraw-Hill Iberoamericana written in three volumes, of those that have been carried out several reprints and a second edition with changes in the structure and contents, that it has been accepted by studious of the surgery in spain and other countries, have the mission of writing this book whose extension constitutes approximately the third part of the Treaty os Surgery mentioned. The object of this work that contains the whole General Surgery and their specialities, as it corresponds to the effective university programs, it is to define the extension of matters at the postgraduates' level, instead of being also good for postgraduates and incipient specialist with the purpose of that the students are not overflowed when facing at the same time with other disciplines in each course. The spirit of this book has much of the one that feeds the persons that write, all of them Professors of Pathology and Surgical Clinic that believe in General Surgery and they exercise it, naturally with personal preferences toward the different sectors of the same one, as it is done in almost all countries.