[The role of preoperative hooked-wire localization of occult lesions for early detection of breast cancer].

Objectives: Nonpalpable small lesions, usually few millimeters in diameter, consist an important problem in the early diagnostics of breast cancer.

Design: An aim of this paper was an evaluation of usefulness of preoperative hooked-wire localization of such lesions for the detection of breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Material consisted of 131 patients aged 37-77 in whom 132 procedures of preoperative hooked-wire localization were performed.

Ozone therapy and the activity of selected lysosomal enzymes in blood serum of patients with lower limb ischaemia associated with obliterative atheromatosis.

Background: The paper compares the effects of ozone therapy and conventional balneological methods on health condition of patients with obliterative atheromatosis and on serum activity of three lysosomal enzymes.

Material/methods: Sixty-four patients with lower limb ischaemia in the course of obliterative atheromatosis (without diabetes) were enrolled in the study. Thirty-two patients were treated with ozone administered by intravenous infusions and 30-minute aerosol oxygen-ozone baths.