[Resection procedure or splanchnecotomy in chronic pancreatitis. Indications and comparative results (author's transl)].

The late results of 18 splanchnectomies-principally in chronic pancreatitis-are reported. One patient died during the clinical follow-up treatment. Four patients died later.

[Indications and limitations of mammography in the diagnosis of breast tumour (author's transl)].

Malignancy of a palpable, circumscribed, solid breast tumour can be clarified only by diagnostic extripation and subsequent histological examination. None of the known physical methods approaches the histological examination in diagnostic accuracy. Since, however, diagnostic accuracy is as important here as with every form of malignant tumour, mammography is superfluous in case of palable tumour.

[Thoracic surgery: history and present status (author's transl)].

Following adoption of the differential airways pressure principle (Sauerbruch), continuous positive airway pressure breathing, together with earlier physiological and clinical preliminary reports on artificial lung ventilation, was a major step on the way to intratracheal anesthesia, which was brought to perfection only after World War II. Up to then, the earlier method that Sauerbruch had used in his pioneer work had been prevalent in thoracic surgery. Since Sauerbruch's death, surgery of the heart and thoracic vessels has developed most successfully, while pulmonary tuberculosis now has hardly any surgical significance.