[Diagnostic value and safety of percutaneous kidney biopsy in experience of one clinical center].

Unlabelled: Percutaneous kidney biopsy is a widely applied diagnostic procedure providing with kidney tissue for microscopy.

Aim Of The Study: The assessment of diagnostic value of kidney tissue specimens gained by percutaneous biopsy and the assessment of that method's safety.

Material: 119 percutaneous kidney biopsies performed on patients of Pediatric Clinic in Zabrze from 1998 through 2007 were analysed.

Octreotide suppression test in diagnosing and predicting the outcome of therapy in patients with neuroendocrine tumors. Preliminary report.

Introduction: Chromogranin A (CgA) is a non-specific marker of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) and is important in monitoring the disease course and NET treatment.

Aim Of The Study: Usefulness of suppression test of CgA secretion with octreotide in diagnosis and predicting the therapy outcome in NET patients.

Material And Methods: The study included 32 patients with NET of gastrointestinal tract, lung and of unknown origin.

[Developmental anomaly of superior vena cava as a reason hampering vein-port catheter implantation].

Occasionally unexpected technical difficulties occur during Port-A-Cath implantation and the central venous catheterization. We described a case of superior vena cava developmental anomaly diagnosed during Port-A-Cath implantation.

[Thyroid function after external irradiation of the neck in patients with Hodgkin's disease--long-term observation].

Introduction: The modern therapy of Hodgkin's disease (HD): chemotherapy (CT) or/and radiotherapy (RT) gives a chance of a long time survival but it brings a possibility of early and late complications including thyroid gland function disorders (post-radiotherapy thyroiditis, thyroid hypofunction, Graves disease, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer).

Aim: Evaluation of thyroid gland function in patients with total HD remission status from 6 to 16 years after the treatment.

Material And Methods: The study included 29 patients suffering from HD (9 women, 20 men, mean age 22.

[Effect of gastroesophageal reflux in children on x-ray imaging of the lungs].

The usefulness of radiologic examination in the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia in infants. The aim of the study was to estimate whether the connection between the localisation and radiological findings on the plain X-ray chest examination exists in the group of 121 infants and young children, age 1 to 24 month (77 boys and 44 girls), treated for pneumonia and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), established by 24-hour esophageal pH-monitoring. In all children the diagnosis of pneumonia were made on admission to hospital by physical and X-ray chest examinations.