Evaluation of MMP-1, MMP-8, MMP-9 serum levels in patients with adrenal tumors prior to and after surgery.

The aim of the study is to evaluate MMP-1, MMP-8 and MMP-9 serum levels in patients with adrenal tumors prior to and after surgery. Metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1), MMP-8 and MMP-9 serum levels were evaluated in 43 patients operated on at our clinic between 1997-1999. Forty-one (95.

Colorectal carcinoid tumors--own experience.

Symptomatology, diagnostics and treatment problems in 5 patients with colorectal carcinoid are presented. From 1974 to 1999 in the Clinic of Endocrinological and General Surgery of the Medical University of Lódź, 3001 patients underwent surgery due to acute appendicitis and 431 for colorectal cancer. Among them, there were 5 patients in whom the histological examination revealed colorectal carcinoid.

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC)--clinical and molecular aspects on the basis of own experience.

In our clinic 19615 patients were operated over 25 years on for goiter. Malignant thyroid neoplasms were found in 1049 (5.3%) patients including 875 (83.

Thyroid cryotherapy in an experimental rat model-topography of temperature during therapy and functional results.

The aim of this study was to investigate post cryotherapy thyroid function status of normal rat thyroid tissue and to determine the topography of temperature of cryotreated tissues and of tissues adjacent to them. Nitrous oxide cryotherapy was performed in 40 male Wistar rats. They were divided into four groups of 10.

Pregnancy following operative and complementary treatment of thyroid cancer.

In 1974-1998, 18,602 patients were operated on due to goitre, including 16,575 (89.1%) women and 2,027 (10.9%) men.