Herniation formation in women undergoing robotically assisted laparoscopy or laparotomy for endometrial cancer.

Objective: To compare the incidence of trocar site hernia in women who underwent robotically assisted laparoscopic surgery (RBT) for endometrial cancer staging with the incidence of ventral hernia formation in patients who underwent laparotomy (LAP) for the same indication. To analyze risk factors for hernia formation in women undergoing RBT for endometrial cancer.

Methods: We retrospectively identified all patients who underwent surgical staging for endometrial cancer via RBT or LAP from 2009-2012.

Treatment of osteomyelitis and infected non-union of the femur by a modified Ilizarov technique: follow-up study.

Aim: To review the results of the management of chronic post-traumatic osteomyelitis and infected non-union with bone defects of femur using the Ilizarov technique with a modified apparatus assembly.

Patients And Methods: Thirty patients treated by the Ilizarov method because of chronic fistulous osteomyelitis and infected pseudoarthroses of the femur were included in the prospective study between 1989 and 1999. Their mean age was 39.

[Severe bradyarrhythmia during myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with injection of dipyridamole (Persantine)].

We describe two cases of severe bradyarrhythmias (one complete AV dissociation; one sinus bradycardia) observed after the intravenous injection of dipyridamole.

[Changes in electrical potentials of gastric mucosa during various types of experimental hypoxia].

In experiments performed on anaesthetized male and female Wistar rats the effects of different types of hypoxia on the electrical potential difference (PD) between the inner and the outer sides of the gastric wall were examined. The PD was determined by mean of the Digital Multimeter VC-10T, Unitra, and the calomel electrodes connected with the KCl-agar bridges. There were four series of experiments carried out in which hypoxia was produced by: I--low atmospheric pressure (hypobaric hypoxia) corresponding with the altitudes of 2500, 5500, 8500 and 10,500 m above sea level, II--1 min.