The expanding role of artificial intelligence in the histopathological diagnosis in urological oncology: a literature review.

The ongoing growth of artificial intelligence (AI) involves virtually every aspect of oncologic care in medicine. Although AI is in its infancy, it has shown great promise in the diagnosis of oncologic urological conditions. This paper aims to explore the expanding role of artificial intelligence in the histopathological diagnosis in urological oncology.

Surgical treatment of pneumothorax in patients with COVID-19 - results and management.

Introduction: The new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, provokes infection with different clinical presentation. It involves an asymptomatic condition, mild variants with fever and dry cough to severe pneumonia, adynamia and respiratory failure with lethal outcome. The fibrotic lung tissue after the inflammatory process is a background for development of a secondary pneumothorax.

Mermaid syndrome associated with VACTERL-H syndrome.

Mermaid syndrome or sirenomelia is an extremely rare congenital malformation with an incidence between 1.5 and 4.2 per 1,000,000 pregnancies.

Operative treatment of postpulmonectomy empyema.

Objective: To analyse retrospectively 10 patients with postpulmonectomy empyema.

Methods: Ten patients (9 men, 1 woman, aged 48 to 69 years) with postpulmonectomy empyema treated over a 12 year period (1991--2002) were analysed. Nine of the patients had pulmonectomy for lung carcinoma and one--for pulmonary abscess.

Perforation of the esophagus.

For the period 1993 through 2001 a retrospective clinical analysis of 22 patients with perforation of the esophagus was conducted. All patients received treatment at the Clinic of Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery, St. George University Hospital, Plovdiv.