Autogenous transplants of adrenal fragments in an animal model.

Unlabelled: Introduction Adrenal insufficiency is a typical complication after surgical treatment of adrenal tumors, especially after the removal of both adrenal glands. Human beings are not able to survive without adrenal glands and without proper hormonal substitution. Autotransplantation of a fragment of the adrenal gland may prevent this complication.

Early Predictors of Post - Thyroidectomy Hypoparathyroidism.

Unlabelled: Thyroid surgery is the most commonly performed procedure in the field of endocrine surgery. Studies are still ongoing on the development of a single algorithm for diagnosis and care of patients at risk of postoperative hypoparathyroidism. The aim of the study was to determine the biochemical marker that would allow the most accurate diagnosis of patient groups at risk of developing hypoparathyroidism and to identify risk factors for this disorder.

Health risk to medical personnel of surgical smoke produced during laparoscopic surgery.

Objectives: During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the removal of the gall bladder, pyrolysis occurs in the peritoneal cavity. Chemical substances which are formed during this process escape into the operating room through trocars in the form of surgical smoke. The aim of this study was to identify and quantitatively measure a number of selected chemical substances found in surgical smoke and to assess the risk they carry to medical personnel.

One-step nucleic acid amplification testing in medullary thyroid cancer lymph nodes: a case series.

Introduction: Locoregional relapse in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) may be caused by nodal micrometastases. Medullary thyroid cancer lymph nodes have not yet been evaluated by one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA). Therefore, the aim of this study was to detect MTC cells by OSNA in cervical lymph nodes and compare the obtained outcomes with conventional histopathology.

Physician as an infective vector at a department of surgery.

Unlabelled: This study was designed to assess the degree of risk of bacterial transmission from physician to patient through hands, equipment and enclosing surfaces (shoe soles).

Material And Methods: The study was conducted in the Clinical Department of General and Oncological Surgery UM in Łódź. In days 16.

Evaluating the prognostic value of selected prognostic scales in patients operated on due to peritonitis.

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of prognostic scales: ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologist), MPI (Meinheim Peritonitis Index), MOFS (the Multiple Organ Failure Score) and SPI (the Simple Prognostic Index) in the prognosis of the course of disease in patients operated on for peritonitis.

Material And Methods: The study was conducted in the Clinical Department of General and Oncological Surgery of the Medical University in Łódź between January 2009 to December 2010. During this period 263 patients were operated on for peritonitis.

Patients subject to surgery due to acute abdominal disorders during the period between 2001-2004.

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical spectrum of emergency surgery for acute abdominal disorders and their outcome.

Material And Methods: The study group comprised 1426 patients, aged between 10 and 92 years subject to emergency surgery, due to an acute abdomen during the period 2001-2004. Analysis comprised age, sex, concomitant diseases, ASA scale classification, postoperative diagnosis, type of surgery, complications, mortality and duration of hospitalization.