Replacement of conventional glucocorticoids by oral pH-modified release budesonide in active and inactive Crohn's disease: results of an open, prospective, multicenter trial.

Glucocorticosteroids (GCS) are established in the treatment of active Crohn's ileitis and ileocolitis. Recently, the topical steroid budesonide was found to be effective in untreated patients with Crohn's disease (CD) causing less side effects than conventional GCS. No clinical data have been reported about the effects of switching from conventional GCS to budesonide in terms of side effects and disease activity.

[Paraneoplastic spastic tetraparesis in glucagonoma syndrome. Successful therapy with octreotide, dacarbazine and interferon-alpha].

Within four years a 44-year-old man developed a glucagonorma syndrome with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, weight loss, diarrhea, anemia and a marked superinfected eczema. He developed an organo-cerebral psychosyndrome with cognitive retardation and syncoptic disturbance of consciousness, followed by a tetraspasticity with tetraparesis, micturition difficulties and fecal incontinence. There were a general cerebral atrophy as verified by means of MRT and signs of a demyelinating cerebral disease.

[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver. Case report of a rare differential diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma].

A 46-year old man suffered from fever, sweating, vomiting, abdominal pains, and watery diarrhea during two weeks. The abdomen was tender on pressure. Laboratory findings revealed increased leucocytes to 18,500/microliters, increased thrombocytes to 513,000/microliters, an increased sedimentation rate of 105/129 mm, CRP of 18.

[Endosonography with electronic longitudinal scan in malignant diseases of the stomach].

To assess the significance of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) using an electronic longitudinal scan we examined 75 patients. 32 patients suffering from malignant diseases of the stomach (2 early cancers, 22 gastric carcinoma, 4 cancers of the cardia, 2 gastric lymphoma, 2 infiltration from outside). 31 of the 32 patients who had malignant gastric diseases were correctly diagnosed by means of EUS.