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Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty that was performed in five patients who had autogenous vein bypass graft stenosis using 6-French to 10-French teflon catheters was initially successful in all patients. One graft was patent at the time of death 15 months after angioplasty. In two patients grafts are patent 14 months and 13 months, respectively, after dilatation. One stenosis recurred at four months and again at eight months and was redilated on both occasions. Graft occlusion occurred at 11 months, and although it was redilated and lysed with streptokinase, the patient required an operation during which he died. One graft occluded at two months. No complications occurred from the angioplasties

Twelve recurrences after surgical treatment of 83 cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast were reported. The histology of the initial tumor was benign (n = 73), borderline (n = 6), sarcoma (n greater than 4). Nine recurrences were observed at the initial site of the tumor (2 in another quadrant of the same breast and I in the contralateral breast). The cause of local recurrence is related to incomplete tumorectomy (n = I), pseudo-capsule infiltration (n = 3), micro-nodules satellites (n = 2). No etiology for recurrence was defined in 3 cases. The importance of a careful microscopic examination of the initial tumor is emphasized because the infiltration of the pseudo-capsule and the presence of micro-nodules satellites can only be recorded on correctly prepared slides