Predictive value of fine needle aspiration biopsy of axillary lymph nodes in preoperative breast cancer staging.

Objective: Diagnosis of axillary nodal involvement is significant in the management of breast cancer as well as in predicting prognosis. In this prospective study, we evaluated the efficiency of US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in preoperative axillary staging of early breast cancer.

Material And Methods: Between January 2011 and July 2013, 46 women were prospectively enrolled in the study.

[Clinical follow-up of patients who ingested narcotic filled bags as a rare cause of mechanical bowel obstruction: case report].

Two patients were admitted to the emergency service of Haseki Education and Research Hospital due to ingestion of narcotic filled bags. Incomplete mechanical bowel obstruction developed in one of them. Both patients were treated conservatively with cleansing enema and were discharged from the hospital without any complication.

[Rupture of an incidental giant liver hemangioma caused by blunt abdominal trauma].

A patient with blunt abdokminal trauma due to a traffic accident was admitted to our clinic and operated urgently because of hemodynamic shock. Operative exploration revealed rupture of a congenital giant cavernous liver hemangioma, then a partial hepatic resection was performed. Liver abscess and pleural effusion occurred in the postoperative period and the abscess was drained by a CT- guided cathetei: However the catheter drainage get infected.