Management of colorectal cancer: 20 years' experience.

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in westernised countries. Its treatment is the subject of active, ongoing investigation within all treatment modalities, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. We reviewed the charts of all patients treated in this university general surgical department for colorectal carcinoma, between January 1983 and December 2002.

[Operative treatment of the invasion of Echinococcus cysticus of the liver into the bile ducts].

The basic principles, methods, and results of treatment are reported from personal experience in the treatment of 32 patients with intrabiliary rupture of hydatid cysts of the liver. These patients were treated from 1970-1979 in Surgery I of the University of Thessaloniki. Total cystectomy combined with sphincteroplasty of the sphincter Oddi is the method of choice.