Heart injuries related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a risk often overlooked.

Background: Current studies focus primarily on skeletal injuries following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Few studies report on intrathoracic injuries (ITI) and none, to our knowledge, focus exclusively on cardiovascular injuries related to cardiac massage. This study was based on autopsy findings and assessed the incidence of non-skeletal CPR related injuries related to chest compression.

Peritoneal carcinomatosis: comparison of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with surgical and histopathologic findings.

Objective: In patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) accurate preoperative assessment is essential to determine indication and surgical procedure to ensure optimal outcome. Purpose of our study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy (DA) of multiphasic dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to determine the extent of PC in correlation with surgical and histopathological findings.

Materials And Methods: 14 Patients with proven PC were examined on a 1.

Circadian expression of clock- and tumor suppressor genes in human oral mucosa.

Purpose: Circadian rhythms are daily oscillations of multiple biological processes driven by endogenous clocks. Imbalance of these rhythms has been associated with cancerogenesis in humans. To further elucidate the role circadian clocks have in cellular growth control, tumor suppression and cancer treatment, it is revealing to know how clock genes and clock-controlled genes are regulated in healthy humans.

Diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the immediate assessment of radiofrequency ablation success in colorectal liver metastases.

Background: To determine the accuracy of contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography (CT) in the assessment of treatment success immediately after CT-guided radiofrequency (RF) ablation.

Methods: 26 patients with 38 Colorectal liver metastasis (CRM) were treated by CT-guided RF ablation. Pre-contrast and portal phase CT features before and immediately after ablation were retrospectively evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively: Influence of attenuation characteristics, safety margin, congruency between tumor and coagulation, and morphological criteria (shape, margin distinction, margin configuration, and margin continuity) were investigated.

Successful coil embolization of a ruptured gastroduodenal artery aneurysm.

Aneurysms of the gastroduodenal artery are rare. Reported here is the case of a 60-year-old woman suffering from the covered rupturing of a twin aneurysm of the gastroduodenal artery. The patient presented herself in the surgical emergency unit with abdominal discomfort.