Case-control study: Determination of potential risk factors for the colonization of healthy volunteers with Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus.

Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus was identified in humans and animals as commensal of the gut and can act as a causative agent of endocarditis and septicemia. A case-control study was performed to identify yet unknown risk factors for the transmission of this facultative pathogen.

Incarceration of Meckel's diverticulum in a left paraduodenal Treitz' hernia.

Meckel's diverticula incarcerated in a hernia were first described anecdotally by Littré, a French surgeon, in 1700. Meckel, a German anatomist and surgeon, explained the pathophysiology of this disease 100 years later. In addition, a congenital paraduodenal mesocolic hernia, known as a Treitz hernia, is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction.

[Operation time for suprapubic transumbilical cholecystectomy: Results of a prospective randomized trial].

Background: Over the last decade new innovative minimally invasive techniques (e.g. transvaginal cholecystectomy and single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy) have been developed to reduce operative trauma, postoperative pain and to achieve better cosmetic results.

[Knife injury to the thoracic aorta and spinal cord. Report on an"almost-mistake"].

We report the surgical treatment of a thoracic knife injury with lesions of the aorta and the myelon. An initially incomplete revision of the wound nearly resulted in a critical situation. Complete revision of a wound is obligatory in a penetrating injury, when a relevant structure is possibly injured.