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J Reichmann

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[Combination therapy of malignant melanoma].

Primary treatment of malignant melanoma should be surgical, with due consideration being given to certain peculiarities, including safety distance and radical lymphonodectomy in cases of lymph node metastasation. Adjuvant chemotherapeutic measures have failed to meet expectations in terms of adjuvant or palliative effects on healing. They have simply proved to prolong life with tumour presence.

Combined Modality Therapy

[The value of the symptom of dysphagia from the surgeon's viewpoint].

Dysphagia is the leading symptom in the most frequent and surgically most important disturbances of the passage of the oesophagus. Possibilities and results of the treatment are analysed on the basis of clinical material from the surgical clinic of Halle university. Nevertheless insufficient results in malignant tumours are opposite to favourable results of the operation in benign diseases (diverticles, achalasia, strictures). Measures for the improvement of the situation of treatment are discussed.

Cachexia

[Progress in functional gastric surgery for stomach ulcers].

Different pathogenetic mechanisms lead to the formation of ulcers in stomach and duodenum. They must be taken into consideration, when selecting operative procedures. In the patient with duodenal ulcer we have with the selective proximal vagotomy a procedure at hand that in effective reduction of the secretion of the stomach and in preservation of the form and function of the stomach fulfills all criteria of a functional gastric surgery. At present in patients with gastric ulcers dominate still methods of resection with the aim of the removal of the ulcer and thus healing. The practicability and effectiveness of non-resecting methods is shown also in this case. But it should be controlled in larger clinical studies.

Adolescent

[Emergency endoscopy in acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: Does the effectiveness justify the effort?].

On the basis of a common care of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage by internists, surgeons, and anaesthetists lasting several years advantages and disadvantages of emergency endoscopy are analysed from the standpoint of effectivity. High diagnostic ability, help in the decision concerning operative or conservative activity, the influence of the operative-tactic approach and the furthering influence on the close cooperation of the specialities are to be emphasized. Criteria of effectivity, such as mortality rates, duration of the stay in the hospital and frequency of relapsing haemorrhages underlie many factors of influence. They express results of therapy, to which emergency endoscopy may at present contribute only limitedly. The basic decision to medical activity -- active striving for a rapid, exact diagnosis or waiting when the diagnosis is uncertain -- does not inessentially influence the standpoint in the controversy about the emergency endoscopy.

Acute Disease

[Blunt injuries of the abdomen in children (author's transl)].

Out of 8 different hospitals 298 children suffering from blunt injuries of the abdomen were reported. 115 children had 141 different intra and/or retroperitoneal injuries of their viscera. Urgency and sequence of diagnostic measures being of highest importance for the destiny of the patient are evaluated.

Abdominal Injuries

[Alterations of abdominal vascularization (especially of the pancreas) after gastric resection (author's transl)].

Completing former examinations the paper deals with the influence of different methods of gastric operation on abdominal vascularization. Typical alterations found by selective coeliac and mesenteric angiography are demonstrated. They include deficiency of arteries, changes in calibre and in the course of the great vessels, alteration of the vascularization of the head of the pancreas. It becomes evident, that the various effects are subject to preoperative anatomical situation and different operative methods.

Abdomen