[Broncho-pulmonary arterial anastomoses in the tuberculous lung. The over-all picture studied by radiocinematography].
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We report the case of a 13-year-old girl who presented mixed polyposis coli and gastric polyps. The rectal and colonic polyps were of the adenomatous and hamartomatous type (i. e. juvenile and Peutz-Jeghers polyps) without any intermediate features; in the stomach, the polyps were of the hyperplastic type. Microadenomas of the appendix and lymphoid hyperplasia of the ileum were also found. The karyotype was normal and the HLA group was A2 B12. No family history of polyps was discovered. To our knowledge no such case (complex polyposis) has been previously described. The present findings suggest that the usual pathological classification of polyposis may be arbitrary and that various pathological types may represent different aspects of the same spectrum of disease. Absence of "intermediate" polyps rule out the hypothesis of the sequence "hyperplastic polyp-juvenile polyp-adenoma".
A combined therapy using a colony-stimulating factor and a chemotherapeutic agent has been designed, in vitro and in vivo, on digestive tumor cells to assess the effects of these agents administered alone or in combination, on the cells' or the tumor's growth rate. A recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rh G-CSF) and Cisplatin (CDDP) has been administered at various concentrations in vitro on oesophageal (ECYO) or on colonic (COLO 205) cell lines and in vivo on oesophagal tumor transplanted in Nude mice. In vitro, the oesophagal model is sensitive to G-CSF. The administration of G-CSF induces a stimulation of the cell proliferation. The DNA synthesis is stimulated or inhibited by low or high concentrations of G-CSF without any dose-response relationship. CDDP inhibits the DNA synthesis in ECYO cells. The association of the two agents leads to an activation of the DNA synthesis but only for some concentrations. On the contrary, the colonic model treated or not by CDDP is not sensitive to G-CSF. In vivo, G-CSF does not allow any inhibition or activation of oesophagal tumor's growth rate. CDDP alone is also inefficient. When G-CSF is administered before CDDP, there is no effect on the tumors. On the contrary, when G-CSF is administered with or after the chemotherapeutic agent, there is a significant inhibition of the tumor's growth rate.