[Perforated jejunal diverticulitis].

Jejunal diverticulosis is a rare disorder and the course of the disease is mostly asymptomatic. Surgical treatment is generally needed in case of complications in the acute phase of the disease, when the disease symptoms most commonly include bleeding and perforation. Jejunum is difficult to examine using the common visualization methods and endoscopic methods.

[Acute arterial occlusions of the upper extremities--clinical data].

The authors describe 30 cases of acute arterial occlusions of upper extremity during the last 10 years (1992-2001) in a group of 27 patients. In 27 cases the occlusions were caused by embolism and in 3 cases by acute thrombosis. In the group were 12 men and 18 women.

[Simultaneous bezoars in the stomach, ileum and cecum causing acute ileus in a 30-year-old imbecile--case report].

Bezoars are concretions of foreign materials in the stomach, small intestine or bowel in people or animals, which impair GIT motility or cause intestinal obstruction. The authors describe an interesting case report of a 30-year-old imbecile with manifestation of simultaneous bezoar of stomach, ileum and caecum and its operative treatment. They describe a short characteristics of this clinical unit, which is reported in the literature only in a few case reports.

[Results of surgical treatment of gastric cancer].

The authors retrospectively analyse a group (1991-2000) of 129 patients with malignancies of the stomach operated at the Surgical Department of The District Hospital in Lucenec. The operated patients were: males 83 (64%), females 46 (36%), mean age--63.4 years.

[Personal experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis].

Authors refer about their experiences with operations of acute cholecystitis by laparoscopy. They have evaluated retrospectively 1600 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomies (LCHE) realized in the period from 1994 to 2000. In 302 (18.