Acute bowel obstruction - the main complication of colorectal cancer. Therapeutical options.

Aim: to choose the proper therapeutical approach in obstructing colorectal cancer.

Material And Method: 77 (29.2%) obstructing colorectal cancers, 88.

The esophagogastric junction cancer: diagnosis and surgical treatment challenges.

Aim: To present our experience in esophagogastric cancer.

Material And Method: Fifty nine subjects with esophagogastric junction cancer (52 men and 7 women, aged between 41 and 74 years), selected from 79 esophageal cancer patients admitted in the last 20 years (1982-2002) were analysed. The diagnosis was established on the clinical picture (esophageal syndrome 54 cases, weight loss 51 cases, anemia 49 cases), on the imaging tests (chest X-ray, barium swallow and CT scan) and endoscopy.

Cystic tumors of the pancreas. Considerations upon 34 operated cases.

Aim: To point out the morphologic, clinic and therapeutic aspects of pancreatic cystic tumors.

Material And Method: 34 pancreatic cystic tumors (21 males and 13 females, aged between 21 and 68 years), admitted in the last 15 years were analyzed. They were true cysts in 3 cases (9.