[Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery of the colorectum].

Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery extends the possibilities of laparoscopic operations while preserving the miniinvasive character of the operation. The objective of the work is, based on the authors' experience with a group of 28 patients operated by this method for diseases of the colorectum to describe the surgical technique, present their results and emphasize the indications and advantages of this procedure.

[Metastatic choriocarcinoma as a cause of hemorrhage in the digestive tract and abdominal cavity].

Authors present a case report of an young woman with metastatic choriocarcinoma. Clinical presentation of the disease was intracerebral bleeding concurring with intestinal bleeding and bleeding from ruptured spleen according to metastatic spread. Physicians firstly didn't think of choriocarcinoma because of small incidence of the disease and long period after the patient's latest pregnancy.