3 results match your criteria: "St. Barbara Specialist Hospital[Affiliation]"
Percutaneous treatment of malignant bile duct strictures in patients treated unsuccessfully with ERCP.
Med Sci Monit
May 2001
Department of Internal Diseases, Silesian Medical University, Katowice, St. Barbara Specialist Hospital No 5, Plac Medyków 1, 41-200 Sosnowiec, PO Box 168, Poland.
Background: The preferred treatment of malignant distal bile duct strictures is endoscopic stent insertion. When this fails, percutaneous drainage is an alternative to surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the success and complication rate of temporary percutaneous treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNasobiliary drainage for biliary leaks after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Med Sci Monit
May 2001
Department of Internal Diseases, Silesian Medical University, Katowice, St. Barbara Specialist Hospital No 5, Plac Medyków 1, 41-200 Sosnowiec, PO Box 168, Poland.
Background: The optimal endoscopic procedure and the appropriate duration of treatment in management of patients with biliary leaks after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) have not been established so far. The aim of the study is the evaluation of endoscopic drainage by endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) and/or nasobiliary tube placement in treatment of biliary leaks after LC.
Material And Methods: ERCP identified a biliary fistula site after LC in 17 patients as arising from the cystic duct stump (n = 12), anomalous branch of right hepatic duct (n = 1) and common bile duct (n = 4).
A unique case of primary corneal melanoma.
Jpn J Ophthalmol
April 2002
Department of Ophthalmology, Silesian School of Medicine, St. Barbara Specialist Hospital, Sosnowiec, Poland.
Purpose: To report a unique case of primary corneal melanoma.
Methods: A 59-year-old white woman underwent keratectomy to remove a pigmented rapidly enlarging growth on the corner of her left eye. The specimen was submitted for histopathologic examination.