B Geissler, R Fleischmann, T Wagner, W Wohlgemuth, F Lindemann
{"title":"[Angiosarcoma of the spleen. Case report and review of the literature].","authors":"B Geissler, R Fleischmann, T Wagner, W Wohlgemuth, F Lindemann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Angiosarcoma of the spleen is a very rare but highly malignant vascular neoplasm. So far only 140 cases have been reported. A 42-year-old patient is presented in which the radiologic imaging misled to the diagnosis of infiltrating echinococcosis. After splenectomy histological and immunohistochemical staining gave proof of metastatic angiosarcoma. The patient died three months later as a consequence of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. The literature is reviewed in regard to clinical features, diagnosis and therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 4","pages":"226-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20373171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome. Case report of an 11-year-old boy].","authors":"G Fitze, H Taut, E Rupprecht, D Roesner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The popliteal entrapment syndrome arises due to a compression of the popliteal artery by tendomuscular structures often combined with an anomal position of the artery. Mostly young men are complaining of this disease. We report about an eleven-year old boy, who had an interview with us because of acute ischaemic symptoms in the left shank. We ensured a popliteal entrapment syndrome type I by Kogel. By a dorsal approach to the fossa poplitea we performed the myotomy and the restoration of the artery into the normal position. Eight month postoperative the boy is without any complaint. In doppler-scan we record an normal arterial flow.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 6","pages":"393-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20422828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Waiting for the crisis].","authors":"G D Giebel, M Doehn, M Müller-Gorges, R Stuttmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim of the study: </strong>Experience in daily routine reveals that most of ICU patients usually go through \"crisis\" within 14 days of admission. Only few patients need remarkable more time to get to this point and it seems there is hardly anything to be done therapeutically to change the course of it. We therefore examined a large group of ICU patients in order to find reasons for this course or to spot them as an \"entity of their own\".</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>1,861 ICU patients all being on IPPV for more than three days were included in the study. Every day 18 variables were taken down in a standardised way until the day IPPV was finished. We extracted 170 patients who were artificially ventilated for more than 40 days. For these patients we established mean values for each of the 18 variables during the first and the last 40 days of ventilation. In both groups we compared survivors to non-survivors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mortality was almost the same in both groups (IPPV < 40 days vs. IPPV > 40 days). Survivors and non-survivors showed remarkable differences regarding extrapulmonary factors-in terms of total fluid amount and transfusion, state of abdomen, brain, liver and kidney function and circulation problems. Pulmonary factors revealed major differences only towards the end of the observation period.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There seems to be an \"entity of ist own\", a small population of patients who arrive at the crucial turning point later. Pulmonary complications (pneumonia, ARDS) is not the reason but the expression of cause for prolonged ventilation. The key to the extrapulmonary origin of the crisis remains unknown, the only thing we can do is alleviate its manifestations.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 4","pages":"197-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20372594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Systemic release of prostanoids after surgically-induced injury of lung tissue].","authors":"F Gebhard, M Marzinzig, W Hartel, U B Brückner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a prospective study, the systemic inflammatory consequences of surgery-induced lung tissue injury were evaluated using biochemical markers. The aim was to examine whether this type of injury produces a specific pattern of prostanoid plasma levels (prostacyclin, thromboxane, PGE2, PGF2 alpha, and PGM). We, therefore, compared 18 patients (group 1) who underwent thoracotomy without injury to the lung with 26 patients (group 2) that had a resection of pulmonary tissue due to benign diseases. Group 2 patients clearly revealed increased plasma levels of C-reactive protein as well as of the granulocyte-specific PMN-elastase. In particular, there was a pronounced release of prostacyclin and its antagonist thromboxane A2 following lung tissue resection. In contrast to group 1 patients, lung tissue damage resulted in immediately elevated plasma levels of PGF2 alpha and PGE2. When, however, taking into account the time course of PGM, the stable cleavage product of PGF2 alpha, there was no hint of an altered pulmonary metabolic capacity. Presumably, this pattern of elevated prostanoid levels in group 2 is the result of the surgical damage to the lung tissue. Therefore, it can be suggested to be specific for that type of injury. Thus, the release of prostanoids following surgery-induced lung tissue damage may indicate the importance of these mediators, particularly in thoracic injuries associated with lung damage since those may lead to post-traumatic pulmonary dysfunction. These substances may also be useful in evaluating both the severity and the extent of lung tissue damage following major trauma.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 5","pages":"243-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20338475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Does the extent of lymph node dissection have an effect on morbidity and prognosis after resection of the head of the pancreas for ductal or periampullary pancreatic carcinoma?].","authors":"T Böttger, J Boddin, R Küchle, T Junginger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the influence of lymph node dissection on morbidity and mortality of 13 patients after resection of the head of pancreas due to a ductal or periampullary carcinoma. In both groups the radicality of the operation was the main prognostic factor. In ductal pancreatic carcinoma the R-status was able to be determined better by normalisation of the postoperative Ca 19-9 serum level than by the evaluation of the surgeon or pathologist. For prognosis, the quotient of metastatic lymph nodes to resected lymph nodes indicates that an extensive lymph node dissection may increase the long term survival. A lymph node dissection is therefore to be recommended, especially since it does not increase the rate of postoperative complications.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 4","pages":"209-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20372595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Fatal outcome factors of intestinal infarct of primary vascular origin].","authors":"M Gawenda, P Scherwitz, M Walter, H Erasmi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite diagnostic and therapeutic advances, mesenteric vascular occlusion with intestinal infarction is often fatal. Parameters determining the high mortality are seldom discussed in the literature. By univariate statistical analysis we correlated the therapeutic outcome of our patients to 20 parameters. Between 1 January 1984 and 30 April 1996 we treated 22 men and 18 women with acute bowel ischemia of vascular origin. All patients underwent laparotomy, 40% (n = 16) due to the diagnosis of mesenteric infarction. In 15% (n = 6) the laparotomy was only exploratory; in 34 cases (85%) bowel resection was carried out. Mortality for all patients was 55% (n = 22). Univariate analysis of the 20 parameters showed that the therapeutic outcome was significantly correlated to a pre-existing diabetes, the course of hospitalization, and the high ASA class. There was no correlation to the length of resected bowel. Most parameters that determine the mortality of bowel infarction are pre-existing and cannot be influenced, but survival can be achieved in some patients if radical and aggressive resection is carried out at the side of almost complete small bowel infarction and followed by an elective second-look operation. Even short-bowel syndrome can be treated. Patients can return to a near normal lifestyle with an acceptable quality of life with the aid of parenteral nutrition at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 6","pages":"319-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20422333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Concealed perforated aneurysm of an aberrant right hepatic artery: papillary bleeding. Case report and review of the literature].","authors":"A Hoffmann, K Günther, H Rupprecht","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rare case of spurious aneurysm of an aberrant right hepatic artery is reported. Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography, computed tomography and selective angiography of the coeliac trunc are diagnostic. Resection of the aneurysm and interposition of saphenous vein is the preferred procedure. In selected cases ligation of the common hepatic artery is possible. Intrahepatic aneurysms are preferably treated interventionally.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 4","pages":"222-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20373170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Current status of abdominal aortic aneurysm therapy].","authors":"J R Allenberg","doi":"10.1007/BF02498660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02498660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 3","pages":"117-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02498660","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20260665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W Kaiser, J Burmester, H Hausmann, V Gulielmos, M Hätzel, H J Merker
{"title":"[Comparative stability evaluation of dynamic hip screw and gamma-nail osteosyntheses in unstable pertrochanteric femoral osteotomies].","authors":"W Kaiser, J Burmester, H Hausmann, V Gulielmos, M Hätzel, H J Merker","doi":"10.1007/BF02465097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02465097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 24 human cadaver femora standardized instable pertrochanteric osteotomies were created. The right and left femur of each pair were alternately selected for osteosyntheses with the gamma nail and the dynamic hip screw. Afterwards an examination of stability was performed. Cyclical loads were increased in 500 N increments to the maximum loading capacity, while the deformation rate was continuously measured. Radiographs were taken to prove the results of loading. The mean deformation was much greater in the DHS group than for the gamma nail, the maximum load to failure was significantly lower. Femoral shaft fractures caused by the loading occurred five times as often in the gamma nail osteosyntheses than in the DHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 2","pages":"100-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02465097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20144654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Lange, J Erhard, A Sander, J Kemnitz, D A Garkuwa, F W Eigler
{"title":"[Animal experiment studies of arterialization of the portal vein in liver transplantation using the Göttingen minipig].","authors":"R Lange, J Erhard, A Sander, J Kemnitz, D A Garkuwa, F W Eigler","doi":"10.1007/s004230050067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s004230050067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present experimental investigation was to assess the circulatory, biochemical and histopathological consequences of complete portal vein arterialization of the transplanted liver in 'Göttinger' miniature pigs. Orthotopic liver transplantations using a passive portojugular shunt were performed in six male 'Göttinger' miniature pigs. Using an iliac artery segment interposition of the animal donor, the hepatic artery (HA) of the transplant liver was anastomized end-to-end and the portal vein (PA) also united with the internal iliac artery stump end-to-end. The central anastomosis was performed onto the suprarenal aorta. Portal vein blood was drained into the infrahepatic caval vein via an end-to-side shunt (PCS). During the course, the following parameters were determined: arterial blood pressure, venous pressure, cardiac output, electromagnetic blood flow measurements across the HA, PA, and PCS, PA mean pressure, transaminases, partial thromboplastin time and fibrinogen. Liver biopsies and autopsy specimens were investigated. One of six animals died a few hours postoperatively, two of six died after 48 and 72 h, respectively, whereas three pigs survived the scheduled 7 days. The cardiac output fell intraoperatively initially by an average of 20% but had approximately the starting volume of 2.2 l/min at the end of the operation. Although the diameter of the anastomosis was reduced to 4 mm, the flow in the arterialized PA on average was 340 ml/min when the vessel clamp was opened. At the end of operation the mean was 380 ml/min, the interval of measurement being 75 min. The flow across the PCS and the HA were constant during the course. As mechanism for this phenomenon, autoregulation of the liver blood flow on a sinusidal level has been suggested. The biochemical results and the histopathological findings showed no change compared to previous findings in a control group of animals in which liver transplantation was performed by our team. Complete arterialization of the PA is well tolerated in liver transplantation in 'Göttinger' miniature pigs with regard to circulation and liver function in a short-term trial of a maximum of 7 days. Long-term results are still to come.</p>","PeriodicalId":17985,"journal":{"name":"Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie","volume":"382 6","pages":"277-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20421117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}