[Non-typical tumor of the left kidney].

The paper presents the diagnosis and treatment of 62-years old male, admitted to the hospital with supposition of splenomegaly. X-ray of abdomen and urography showed in the location of left kidney irregularly calcified tumor with features of a huge mould concretion in the collecting system of the left kidney. After subsequent diagnostic procedures as: ultrasonography of abdomen, aortonephrography, CT, patient was qualified for surgical intervention.

[An atypical case of acute zinc poisoning].

The paper discussed a case of acute zinc intoxication in a 48-year old welder, after four days of cutting zinc-plated pipes with an oxy-acetylene torch, in poorly ventilated places. The zinc fever has been diagnosed on the basis of the symptoms and confirmed by laboratory findings: high zinc blood and erythrocyte concentration and increased urinary excretion of zinc. One year the intoxication the manifestations of the psycho-organic syndrome with predilection to pseudoneurotic reactions were still present.

Application of the Minnesota Code in evaluating electrocardiographic features of ischemic heart disease in patients exposed to carbon disulphide.

We examined 81 men exposed for a long time to carbon disulphide (CS2) and tested the possible electrocardiographic (ECG) changes of ischemic heart disease (I.H.D.