Management and care of the precanceroses of the stomach in the 11-year material of our clinic.

The present paper surveys over the past 11 years the cases of the endoscopic laboratory of our clinic which, according to criteria accepted all over the world, were considered as precancerous states of the stomach. According to the authors' experience, an advance in the management of malignant diseases can only be expected by referring to operation the cases in their early stage, if the examination and regular control of the patients are carried out with the predisposing factors being considered by a team involving the surgeon, endoscopist and pathologist.

Comparison of histochemical and biochemical methods in the evaluation of estrogen and progesterone receptor level in human breast cancer. A study of 118 cases.

Unselected surgical specimens from 118 cancerous breasts of female patients were studied by histochemistry for the presence of cellular estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors. The receptor tracers used were 17 beta-estradiol-6-carboxymethyl-oxim-bovine serum albumin - fluorescein isothiocyanate and 11 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone-hemisuccinate-bovine serum albumin-tetramethylrodamine isothiocyanate conjugate (Fluoro-CepTM). Out of 118 carcinomas 77 (67%) proved to be positive in the ER and 79 (66%) in the PR test.

The importance of endothelial cells in the course of vascular surgical interventions.

Aorto-coronary bypass made by implanting the patient's own saphenous vein may exhibit a tendency to early and late occlusion. This phenomenon is influenced by a number of factors including intraoperative damages of the graft. To determine preferable techniques for preserving vein integrity, various human graft preparation techniques were compared.

Light and electron microscopic study of pathomorphological changes on the arterial wall after transluminal angioplasty.

The vascular complications arising after the percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of the arteriosclerotic stenosis in the right superficial femoral artery of a 70-year old female patient six days prior to her death were studied by means of light microscopy and with the transmission and scanning electron microscopes. The pictures revealed disruption in the vascular wall of the superficial femoral artery, fresh thrombus in the dissecting aneurysm of arteriosclerotic origin in the distal part of the posterior tibial artery and haemorrhage in the media. A connection is suggested between these findings and the angioplastic intervention.

Muscle spindles in rheumatoid arthritis. An ultrastructural study.

Ultrastructural features of muscle spindles were studied in biopsy material from 100 patients suffering from classical rheumatoid arthritis. Thickening of the outer capsule, increased amount of extracellular ground substance within the inner capsule, and marked thickening of the basement membrane of capillary blood vessels supplying the muscle spindles were observed. Chronic inflammatory cells and macrophages were present within the spindles.

Muscle changes in rheumatoid arthritis. A review of the literature with a study of 100 cases.

Muscle changes were studied in biopsy material obtained from 100 patients suffering from classical rheumatoid arthritis. The abnormalities consisted of denervation atrophy of type II muscle fibres, degenerative changes in the sarcoplasm including presence of nemaline rods, and changes within the interstitium: namely perivascular nodular myositis, lymphocytic accumulations, different stages of vasculitis and abnormalities within the intramuscular nerves and muscle spindles. The muscles examined were always severely affected.