Arterial erosions in acute pancreatitis.

Acute pancreatitis was observed in 492 patients. Fourteen (2.8%) developed an arterial erosion revealed by a haemorrhage either in the digestive lumen, in the peritoneum or via previously placed drainage.

Cecostomy is a useful surgical procedure: study of 113 colonic obstructions caused by cancer.

Purpose: There is a large choice of treatment for obstructing carcinoma of the left colon. We report our experience of tube cecostomy as the initial treatment for obstructing colonic carcinoma followed by elective resection.

Methods: From 1975 to 1995, 113 patients presenting with colonic obstruction caused by cancer were initially treated by tube cecostomy.