Watch-and-wait strategy in rectal cancer: Is there a tumour size limit? Results from two pooled prospective studies.

Background: Frequency and predictive factors for a clinical complete response (cCR) in unselected patients are unclear.

Material And Methods: Two prospective observational studies were designed and pooled to explore predictive factors for cCR. Both studies evaluated the watch-and-wait strategy in consecutive patients; the first single-institutional study in elderly with a small tumour, the second multi-institutional study in all the patients receiving standard of care preoperative radiotherapy.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without oxaliplatin after short-course radiotherapy in high-risk rectal cancer: A subgroup analysis from a prospective study.

Aim: To evaluate the role of oxaliplatin in neoadjuvant chemotherapy delivered after short-course irradiation.

Background: Using oxaliplatin in the above setting is uncertain.

Patients And Methods: A subgroup of 136 patients managed by short-course radiotherapy and 3 cycles of consolidation chemotherapy within the framework of a randomised study was included in this post-hoc analysis.

TRUS-guided drainage of the ectopic ureter entering the prostatic urethra and TRUS-guided transurethral neo-orifice formation using holmium laser.

A fifty-nine year-old male was hospitalized for exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis. As a gigantic cyst of the pancreatic tail was identified, it was fused with the jejunal loop. Due to persistent fever and severe symptoms in the storage and voiding phases, the patient was referred to a urologist.

Parastomal hernia - current knowledge and treatment.

Intestinal stoma creation is one of the most common surgical procedures. The most common long-term complication following stoma creation is parastomal hernia, which according to some authors is practically unavoidable. Statistical differences of its occurrence are mainly due to patient observation time and evaluation criteria.

[Haemobilia in the course of acenocoumarol overdosage in patient with cholelithiasis--case report].

Haemobilia is a rare cause of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding and is often associated with a history of hepatic or biliary tract injury, tumor growth, hepatic artery aneurysm, cholecystitis, or hepatic abscess. We report a case of a 79-year-old women with haemobilia due to acenocoumarol overdosage. She has been, taking 12 mg acenocoumarol by mistake for 5 days before admission because of atrial fibrillation.