Tuberculosis of gall-bladder mimicking malignancy – a case report

A correct preoperative diagnosis of gall-bladder tuberculosis is exceptionally unusual in the absence of pathognomic features both on clinical presentation and on imaging. Herein we present a case of 50 year female who w...

Selected Methods of the Chest Wall Reconstruction for Sternal Dehiscence after Median Sternotomy

Dehiscence of a median sternotomy wound is a potentially devastating and life-threatening complication of cardiac procedures.Depending on the localization, extensiveness, and profoundness of the defect a variety of muscl...

Head and Neck Lymphomas - Diagnostic Difficulties

Surrogate and clinical endpoints for studies in peripheral artery occlusive disease: Are statistics the brakes?

Background: The aim of this review is to present the available clinical and surrogate endpoints that may be used in future studies performed in patients with peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD). Importantly, we de...

CIDE-A gene expression in patients with abdominal obesity and LDL hyperlipoproteinemia qualified for surgical revascularization in chronic limb ischemia

According to the latest data, CIDE-A gene plays a key role in the regulation of body weight in both humans and mice, and therefore it is regarded a potential candidate gene for human obesity. The aim of the study was to...