Initial medical diagnosis of patients severely irradiated in the accident with 60Co in Bulgaria.

A severe radiation accident occurred on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 in an industrial irradiation facility. Five people were exposed for 5-10 min to (60)Co source (137 TBq-3710 Ci). This accident was the first one in Bulgaria, in which the whole-body irradiation doses exceeded 1 Gy and suggested the development of acute radiation syndrome (ARS).

[The importance of endoscopy in the diagnosis of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the stomach].

Four patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the stomach are presented. In 3 of the patients the localization of the lymphoma was considered primary and in the fourth patient it was considered secondary. The diagnosis was made on clinical, laboratory and instrumental data and had been confirmed histologically and in 3 of the patients also surgically.