Sexual activity in patients after proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.

<b>Introduction:</b> Proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis is the gold standard in the surgical treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis, familial adenomatous polyposis and other colorectal diseases requiring colectomy. The treatment consists in removing the large intestine and creating an intestinal reservoir from the last ileum loop and then anastomosing the intestinal reservoir with the anal canal. Like any surgical procedure, RPC-IPAA also carries the risk of complications, both early and late.

Józef Bednarz (1879-1939) - psychiatrist, forensic expert and manager of psychiatric treatment in the interwar period.

The article presents the figure of the Polish psychiatrist, Dr. Józef Bednarz (1879-1939). Bednarz, the last interwar director of the Pomeranian National Mental Hospital in Swiecie, is seen mainly in the elegiac context of the tragic death, inflicted at the hands of the Nazi occupiers in October 1939.

Kleptomania or common theft - diagnostic and judicial difficulties.

First descriptions of kleptomania as a mental disorder date back to the nineteenth century. For the first time, kleptomania as an accompanying symptom rather than a formal diagnosis was included in the classification of psychiatric disorders of the American Psychiatric Association DSM-I in 1952. It was included in the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 and classified under "habit and impulse disorders".

Rectal Prolapse in Women-Outcomes of Perineal and Abdominal Approaches.

The aim of the study was to assess the clinical and functional results of surgical treatment of female patients with rectal prolapse. In the period of 2003-2010, the group of 86 female patients (mean age of 67 ± 10) underwent surgery due to rectal prolapse. The group of 24 patients (27.

Formalin therapy for hemorrhagic radiation proctitis.

Background: Radiotherapy within pelvis is a vital component of curative therapy for urological, gynecological and rectal malignances. Rectum is especially vulnerable to secondary radiation injury resulting in proctitis. The most common and life-threatening symptom is rectal hemorrhage.

Expression of the PLS3 Gene in Circulating Cells in Patients with Colorectal Cancer.

Unlabelled: Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are cells in circulating blood that have the antigen and gene features of tumor cells of a specific type. Since they can be potentially used in diagnostics and monitoring of treatment of many tumors, they have been attracting attention of researchers worldwide. Plastin-3 (PL S3) is one of such markers of CTC.

Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses - our experience.

Introduction: Surgeons face a special challenge in treating Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusion.

Aim: To present our surgical experience with this group of patients operated on in our department.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 16 unselected Jehovah's Witnesses patients was conducted between October 2004 and February 2012.

[Polish neuropsychiatric environment to sterilization laws in the thirties of the twentieth century].

The article describes the considerations that were carried out by Polish psychiatrists and neurologists in the thirties of the twentieth century, due to the sterilization of persons with mental disorders. The paper presents a short history of sterilization laws in the world. The reaction to the German Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring (1933) among Polish psychiatrists was presented.

Colorectal cancer in young and elderly patients.

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to answer the question whether there are differences in the progression of the disease and its morphology, dependent of the patient's age, as well as show colorectal cancer differences between young and elderly patients.

Material And Methods: During the period between 2009 and 2011, 747 patients with rectal carcinoma, and 478 with colon cancer underwent surgery at the Department of General and Colorectal Surgery. The study group comprised patients under the age of 40 years (56 patients) and >80 years (90 patients).

Malignant melanoma of the anorectum--a rare entity.

Objective: Primary anorectal melanoma is a rare entity with a poor prognosis accounting for approximately 0.1-4.6% of anal tumours and 0.