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C Chaimoff

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Hemangioma of the rectum: clinical appearance and treatment.

A 53-year-old woman who had severe rectal bleeding was found to have a perirectal hemangioma as a source of the bleeding. Four years prior to this admission, she had undergone, in another hospital, hemorrhoidectomy, which had required resuturing several times in order to stop rebleeding. The diagnosis of hemangioma was established after extensive roentgenographic examination. The patient was treated with low-dose irradiation, divided into five consecutive sessions, to the affected area. The bleeding stopped, and the patient has been free of disease since treatment two years ago. The lumen of the rectum is not narrowed, the mucosa appears normal, and the elasticity of the rectal wall has been preserved.

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The postoperative appearance of the liver on scanning following omentopexy of the hydatid cyst.

Six patients were operated on for hydatid disease of the liver by the omentopexy method. On repeated scans of the liver performed respectively one and four years after the operation, it was seen that the scanning defect at the site of the cyst still remained, without being replaced by normal liver tissues. The patients recovered fully and had no complaints.

Echinococcosis, Hepatic↗
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Kinetics of cortisol, interleukin-2 and interleukin-3-like activity levels following surgical intervention.

Cortisol, interleukin(IL)-2 and IL-3-like activity (IL-3-LA) levels were examined in two groups of patients before and after surgery. One group consisting of 11 patients underwent cholecystectomy; the other comprising 17 patients with malignant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract underwent a removal of the tumor. In both groups there were similar fluctuations in cortisol levels after surgery, i.e. a statistically significant increase at day 2 after operation with a decrease to normal values at day 14. The levels of IL-2 and IL-3-LA production in the two groups followed a different pattern. In patients with cholecystectomy the IL-2 and IL-3-LA levels showed a marked decrease at day 2 with a gradual increase on the following days. In cancer patients IL-2 was at its lowest level before surgery and started to increase gradually till day 14 after surgery. The lowest level of IL-3-LA was at day 2 after surgery and it increased gradually from day 7 to 14. It is suggested that the fluctuations of these two cytokines after surgery are related to the levels of corticosteroids which have been shown to inhibit the production of IL-2 and IL-3-LA in vitro. The observed increase of cortisol level with a concomitant decrease of IL-2 and IL-3-LA after surgery may further explain the immunosuppression observed after operation.

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