Witkin 1980-1988, 42 patients (4 males and 38 females) were operated for the gall-bladder cancer; it makes 2.9% of the patients who underwent cholecystectomies. Average age of female patients was 65 and males--71 years. No typical complaints were revealed making possible an early diagnosing of the gall-bladder cancer. The far advanced stages of this cancer were found in 41 cases. In i case no macroscopic features of the cancer were found. Cancer was diagnosed by means of histopathological examination. One patient (woman) survived more than 3 years after operation; 3 women survived more than 1 year. Average survival is 4 months.

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[Our experience with the treatment of cancer of the adrenal cortex].

Nineteen patients with suprarenal tumours were treated surgically within 9 years. Suprarenal cortex carcinoma was diagnosed in 4 of them. One patient was operated twice within 18 months: first the tumour from the right suprarenal gland was removed, then--from the left. Four out of 5 removed tumours were quite sizeable; only in one patient tumour was less than 5 cm in diameter. For diagnostic purposes urography, arteriography, computer tomography and USG were used. Because the characteristic symptoms of the diagnose were absent. Patients reported for the treatment when the disease was markedly advanced. This study stresses the necessity of operative treatment despite discouraging results of diagnostic examinations.

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