[Video-assisted closed-thorax esophagectomy in cancer. A technical proposal].

abstract：:An increased risk of colorectal cancer has been reported in first-degree relatives of affected patients, and following cholecystectomy or partial gastrectomy for benign peptic ulcer disease. The aim of this study was to examine the incidence of these potential risk factors in 197 patients (127 males, 70 females, mean ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Civitelli S,Civitelli B,Landini T,Pacchiarotti MC,Mancini A,Tanzini G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has been the subject of much controversy since the advent of population based breast screening programs. An increasing number of asymptomatic women are being diagnosed with this condition and there is uncertainty over the best treatment algorithm for this condition if treatment is to be...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Khan A,Dumitru D,Catanuto G,Rocco N,Nava MB,Benson J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are several therapeutic proposals for idiopathic varicocele treatment, but all of them present a certain number of relapses. The technique proposed consists, through an inguinal approach, in a systematic ligation and section of all veins potentially responsible of a venous reflux. METHODS:During a per...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Armellino MF,Romano G,Imperato L,Rispoli G

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to propose the Video-Consulting Emergency (VCE) protocol as a tool to improve the decision-making process between an on-site emergency physician and a remote acute care surgeon using a smartphone, the FaceTime application, and the Acute Abdominal Decision Making (AADM®) model proposed by World Soc...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： De Simone B,Ansaloni L,Sartelli M,Coccolini F,Napoli JA,Catena F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This prospective study was done to evaluate the efficacy of commercial fibrin glue application in the healing of patients with fistulas-in-ano from a short follow up period (one year). METHODS:This randomized clinical trial of 26 patients was performed during the period from January 2012 to July 2012. Nineteen men...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Cestaro G,De Rosa M,Gentile M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two personally observed cases of ischaemia of the lower extremities due to thrombosis caused by a popliteal aneurysm are presented. While surgery is known to be treatment of choice, in these cases locoregional fibrinolysis was preferred. It seems useful to detail the advantages of this approach that has never appeared...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Bonelli U,Cerruti R,Patrone P

更新日期：1989-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years, several new systemic cancer therapy strategies have been introduced to turn the growing insights of molecular aberrations involved in the development and progression of lung cancer into better treatment options fort the patients. This review presents some of the most important biological targets a...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Zaba O,Grohe C,Merk J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the application value of nanocarbon lymphatic tracer in thoraco-laparoscopic esophagectomy. METHODS:A total of 80 patients were enrolled and randomly divided into the experimental group (N.=40) and the control group (N.=40). Patients in the experimental group were injected with nanocarbon su...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Liu L,Zhu J,Lu C,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resection and thermal ablation procedures are frequently used for the treatment of primary and secondary liver tumors. Various tools for the virtual planning of liver resections and ablation are available and some of them are already used clinically. Resection planes and ablation volumes can be optimized for sufficien...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Bale R,Widmann G,Jaschke W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personal experience of a fairly rare disease is reported and it is stressed that the decisive factor in opting for surgery is the diameter of the colon, particularly the cecum, on the basis of direct X-ray of the abdomen. It is considered that cecostomy is not only the simplest operation but is also the one that offer...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Brigli G,Doria FE,Sommariva S,Kotitsa Z,Doria FL

更新日期：1989-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Prosthetic palliation of patients with malignant hilar stenoses shows particular difficulties, especially in advanced lesions. This is a prospective report of the efficacy of endoscopically inserted single metal stent for complex malignant biliary hilar obstruction. METHODS:Sixty-one consecutive patients were recr...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： De Palma GD,Rega M,Persico M,Mastantuomo L,Patrone F,Di Marino M,Persico G

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic trauma occurs in an estimated 25% of all trauma victims, with approximately 50% of trauma mortalities attributable to these injuries. Only 4% of thoracic traumas involve injuries to thoracic vessels, including the aorta, innominate veins and artery, left carotid artery, internal mammaries, and pulmonary hilar...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Lim JY,Wolf AS,Flores RM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case of pancreatic encephalopathy. This uncommon condition, rarely described in the literature, occurs with neuropsychiatric signs 3-4 days after the onset of acute pancreatitis. Diagnosis is due to clinical and biochemical findings and to post mortem examinations revealing also amylase in CSF. ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Cardaci SB,Reddavid M,Fossati G,Ponzio S,Tramontano R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mirizzi syndrome is an unusual benign obstructive jaundice due to extrinsic mechanical compression of the common hepatic duct by gallstone impacted within the neck or cystic duct of the gallbladder. This syndrome is described either as an acute form due only to extrinsic compression of the common bile duct (type I...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Berta R,Pansini GC,Zamboni P,Navarra G,Bertasi M,Vasquez G,Liboni A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warthin's tumour is a much debated clinical case-characterised by the presence of epithelial proliferation and lymphoreticular stroma. Numerous controversies concern this type of tumour so much so that recently is was even denied that it can be considered a real tumour. The present paper aims to review the state of th...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pomatto E,Carbone V,Corradi L,Vercellino V

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analysed 90 cases of symptomatic cholelithiasis treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 27% of the cases studied suffered from microlithiasis, 44% from multiple calculosis with calculi measuring 1 to 2 cm in diameter, 25% from single calculi measuring up to 4 cm in diameter, and 4% from a benign prolifer...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Occhioni G,Pinna R,Nonnis R,Padula G,Pisano I,Mastino GP,Sini G,Spissu M,Satta G,Trignano M

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective series of 30 (2.8%) cases of cholelithiasis out of 1064 abdominal aortic aneurysmectomies is presented. 21 subjects underwent aneurysmectomy and prosthetic grafting combined with cholecystectomy. Complications related to the combined operation, early or late (6 months to 8 years follow-up was available...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ghilardi G,Longhi F,Sgroi G,De Monti M,Scorza R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diaphragmatic hernia described by Morgagni in 1761 and by Larrey in 1829 is a rare diaphragmatic anomaly that may be considered nearly always congenital. It is called in so many ways, but the authors think that "anterior diaphragmatic hernia of Morgagni-Larrey" is the most correct name. Usually asymptomatic in the...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Arzillo G,Aiello D,Priano G,Roggero F,Buluggiu G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute gangrenous appendicitis in the sac of right inguinal hernia in a 77 year-old man is described. This condition is extremely uncommon; it is very difficult to establish a correct diagnosis preoperatively; a high mortality rate is due to extensive peritoneal contamination; primary hernia repair is indicat...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ottaviani M,Maglio MN,Papa F,Zitarelli V,Alario G,Di Marzo A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors discuss the efficacy of the lateral calcaneal artery flap in repairing the calcaneal and malleolar regions. The lateral calcaneal artery flap is a safe flap, with constant vascularization represented by the lateral calcaneal artery and the external saphenous vein; the flap has a sensory nerve (the sural ne...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Marconi F,Cipriani R,Morselli PG,Zannetti G,Gallucci A,Marra M,Tretti M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finding of incidentalomas is becoming increasingly frequent during the course of routine diagnostic tests. At the hepatic level, the preclinical diagnosis of primary tumours has enabled a growing number of patients to undergo surgery with reduced operating trauma and greater oncological radicality. The authors rep...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Marzano T,Geretto P,Coli P,Orsi G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explorative laparotomies and palliative surgery for pancreatic carcinoma have been reduced due to improved diagnostic tools, the spread of laparoscopic techniques and the growing use of external biliary drainage and endoprostheses. By comparing two successive observation periods the authors point out that, owing to th...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Lasagna B,Garino M,Resegotti A,Balbo G

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive iliacofemoral obstruction has always posed a difficult therapeutical problem for the surgeon. Personal experience is cited in support of employment of the deep femoral artery as a natural by-pass, together with its anastomoses. The indications for this form of management are discussed, along with the techniq...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ferrara F,Magrí P

更新日期：1975-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology and clinical manifestations most commonly noted in pseudocysts of the pancreas are briefly described. Particular attention is given to the treatments of lesions operated under emergency conditions and the clinical aspects of pancreatic effusions sometimes encountered during the course of the disease. ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Garavoglia M,Fronticelli C,Mioli P

更新日期：1977-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of great bleeding cyst formation in the abdominal wall is presented. Some aspects of differential diagnosis are discussed and the technique used to close the resultant hole in the intestinal wall after removing the cyst. The particular technical method they used permitted the reconstruction without using artifi...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Zantonello A,Bottero G,Di Francesco F

更新日期：1980-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate and long-term results in 250 PSP operations associated with WSP in 116 cases are reported. Complications and failures are described and evaluated, while their causes and possible connection with the type of operation employed are explained. Examinations carried out in the assessment of long-term results are ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Gazzangiga GM,Conti U,Foscolo PP

更新日期：1976-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report in a retrospective study their experience in the treatment of anal fistulas suggesting the total exercises of the fistula with primary closure of external and internal anal sphincters and rectal mucosa. In our department of surgery between 1987 and 1993, 36 patients (22 males and 14 females) with an...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Toccaceli S,Minervini S,Salvio A,Zarba Meli E,Mazzocchi P,Lepiane P,Altorio F,Basoli A,Speranza V

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Acute postoperative pancreatitis is a rare event, but, at the same time, it represents one of the most frightening complications, because it is associated with high mortality risk. METHODS:From January 1985 to December 2005, we observed 30 cases (12 males, 18 females) of acute postoperative pancreatitis. Twenty ca...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Testi W,Staffieri C,Malatesti R,Macchitella Y,De Martino A,Botta G,Cirianni D,Genovese A,Bing C,Logatt M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystosis conditions include those diseases of the gallbladder whose aetiopathogenesis is to be sought in a hyperplasia of the tissues making up the cholecystic wall (hyperplastic forms) and in an overload of this wall on the part of organic substances or minerals such as lipides or calcium salts (thesaurismosic f...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Varola F,Oliaro A,Benzo ML,Beccaria A,Aimone U,Massa F,Beccaria E,Formento E,Toppino M

更新日期：1977-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the course of 12 years (1977-1989) 40 patients aged over 50 (mean age 67 years) with acute appendicitis (Group I) were admitted to and operated in the Department of Surgery at Casalpusterlengo Hospital. Diagnosis was always confirmed by pathological examination. The following data were taken into account: the int...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pricolo R,Voltolini F,Croce P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00