Current palliative treatment of malignant jaundice.

When selecting the most suitable palliation of malignant jaundice, the following factors are to be considered: 1) patient's overall condition, 2) presumption of patient's survival, 3) technical, personal, and economic factors, 4) effectiveness of procedure, 5) morbidity and mortality of palliative treatment. (Tab. 2, Ref.

[The current method of staging gastrointestinal (GIT) tumors].

The authors analyzed in a retrospective study the stage of carcinomas of the stomach and colorectum in their material. In 1996-1998 they operated 35 patients with gastric tumours and 77 patients with colorectal cancer. In both groups they operated more than 50% of the patients in the IIIrd or more advanced stage of the disease.

[Aortoesophageal fistulae as a cause of fatal hemorrhage].

Aortoesophageal fistula is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, ranging from 0 to 2.3% in literature. The authors studied a group of 266 patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding during the period of three years (1996-1998).