[Acute pancreatitis due to intramural hematoma of the duodenum by the use of anticoagulants].

Background: Spontaneous intramural hemorrhage of the duodenum due to anticoagulant therapy is rare and the treatment is controversial.

Objective: To present the acquired knowledge with the treatment of these disease.

Case Report: A 71-year-old women receiving for a 3 month period an anticoagulant therapy presented cervical bleeding of soft tissues and symptoms of acute pancreatitis and high small bowel obstruction.

The role of surgery in the treatment of primary gastric lymphoma.

The present retrospective study of 23 patients with primary gastric lymphoma had the objective of determining the role of surgical treatment on survival. All patients were submitted to gastric resection with regional lymph node removal. Nine patients (39.

Extended field radiation therapy versus delayed hormonal therapy in node positive prostatic adenocarcinoma.

This study was undertaken to determine the disease control and survival advantage of either extended field megavoltage irradiation or delayed androgen ablation in a randomized clinical trial. Comparison of the 2 treatments, using either time-to-first evidence of treatment failure or survival, demonstrates an advantage to extended field radiation.