abstract：AIM:Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is particularly indicated in diagnosing mediastinal masses or lymphoadenopathy proximal to the airways. Nowadays TBNA has not been widely accepted among pulmonologist and thoracic surgeons. Since its correct management could reduce patient morbidity we adopted this method. He...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Raveglia F,Meda S,Conforti S,Leporati A,Calati AM,Squinzi R,Giuliani L,Mezzetti M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54 year-old man, without any remarkable medical history, was examined for recurrent episodes of colicky abdominal pain, over a period of nine months, with positive faecal occult blood test. Three months earlier he had undergone an extensive evaluation for a single episode of melaena, including upper gastrointestinal...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Griffa B,Basilico V,Feltri M,Griffa A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Facial blushing represents the peculiar symptom in social phobia and is defined as the ''hallmark of embarrassment''. At present, endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) is the technique only able to guarantee long-term results in the treatment of sympathetic disorders. The aim of our study was to evaluate results,...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Sciuchetti JF,Ballabio D,Corti F,Romano F,Benenti C,Costa Angeli M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The primary objective of the study was to compare the effect of laparoscopic-assisted (LPS) versus open surgery (LPT) for colorectal cancer on postoperative morbidity. The secondary objectives were to evaluate immune response and intestinal wall oxygen perfusion. METHODS:A total of 610 patients with colorectal can...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Frasson M,Braga M,Vignali A,Zuliani W,Gruarin P,Dellabona P,Di Carlo V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study reports a series of 7 patients who experienced small-bowel obstruction (SBO) after laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGBP). METHODS:Between July 2001 and June 2004, 211 patients underwent surgery for morbid obesity in 2 different institutions and 7 of them required reoperative laparoscopic surgery or laparot...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Frezza EE,Wachtel MS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoids of the appendix represent a separate class of tumours with characteristics that vary between benign (adenomas) and malignant (carcinomas) neoplasias. A recent nomenclature identifies them as diffuse neuroendocrine system (DNS) and/or, parallely, as neuroendocrine tumours (NET): the gastroenteric tract is th...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Candela G,Varriale S,Di Libero L,Giordano M,Maschio A,Manetta F,Borrelli V,Nunziata A,Santini L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Despite improvement in the operative technique and graft and suture material, femoral anastomotic aneurysms (FAAs) represent a continuing problem for patients undergoing lower extremity revascularization. The present retrospective study investigates the clinical presentation, the infection as a cause of FAAs, the i...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Sigala F,Georgopoulos S,Sigalas K,Alevizacos P,Papalambros E,Bramis J,Tsigris C,Bastounis E,Hepp W

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The jejunal free flap is a standard technique in the reconstruction of hypopharyngeal and cervical esophageal defects. Conventional harvesting of the jejunal segment is performed with midline open laparotomy, which is associated with complications including prolonged ileus, abdominal pain, wound infection or dehiscenc...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Bardone M,Alessiani M,Zonta S,Longoni M,Faillace G,Benazzo M,Occhini A,Dionigi P

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Biliodigestive anastomoses are widely used in the treatment of biliary obstruction. METHODS:A survey is presented of the personal case series treated during the last 5 years. Thirty biliodigestive anastomose have been performed both for neoplastic disease and for benign lesions. RESULTS:The biliodigestive anastom...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Meccariello R,Damiano I,Pelosio L,Rizzo GM,Ansalone M,D'Aniello F

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senology is going to be an independent branch, but resistances to the acknowledgement of the senologist as a devoted professional are still under way. Nevertheless, in the last 20 years an irreversible educational training was traced out. The senologist is not only the surgeon who operates on the breast: he is also a ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Macellari G,Foletti G,Gasparini G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion can be accomplished by any 1 of 3 techniques. These include dissective or surgical, the blind or modified Seldinger, and laparoscopic techniques. The dissective technique solely utilized by surgeons, places the catheter by mini-laparotomy under general anesthesia. In the bli...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Asif A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliative care represents a new field among clinical approaches to patients with advanced or terminal cancer. The modern concept of palliative care can be considered in several ways: 1) the relationship between palliative care and primary treatments of cancer (surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy); 2) the treatment ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Amadori D,Tassinari D,Maltoni M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of surgical wounds infections is still a matter of debate in dermatology. The authors have performed an open and randomized study on the prophylactic efficacy of azithromycin, 500 mg per os 1 h prior to the procedure in a dermosurgical office. The absence of postsurgical infec...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ceccarini M,Bachini L,Bagnoni G,Biondi A,Cardinali C,Eberle O,Pomponi A,Vitolo M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal carcinomatosis has always been regarded to have a poor prognosis. Surgery is usually limited to palliation of bowel obstruction by performing an intestinal bypass or ostomy. This severe disease has been considered as equal to distant metastasis and intravenous (i.v.) chemotherapy is commonly used in order t...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Mahteme H,Påhlman L

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Although many studies on laparoscopic surgery of the stomach have been conducted so far, yet they have not provided surgeons with criteria for gradual and safe training with this technique. The results of gastric surgery with 30 patients operated on by laparoscopic approach are hereby described. The aim of this iss...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pugliese R,Maggioni D,Sansonna F,Scandroglio I,Ferrari GC,Di Lernia S,Boniardi M,Costanzi A,Pauna J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of patients with cervical injuries is highly controversial. Some authorities advocate mandatory exploration for all such injuries, while others advocate selective exploration. This paper will objectively review the evidence supporting each approach. The non-operative approach may be pursued through a va...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ramírez JI,Velmahos GC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses emergent endoluminal technologies currently available for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and compares it to the laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. To date the mainstay of GERD therapy has been achieved with either open or laparoscopic fundoplication or life-long medical...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Oleynikov D,Oelschlager B,Dibaise J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report 2 cases of small bowel ischemia due to unusual cause. In both cases, vasculopathy was the cause of ischemia, but with a different etiology. In the first case, a mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease, with striking features of extensive phlebitis and venulitis affecting the veins of the smal...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Amendolara M,Carpentieri L,Balbi T,D' Elia A,Perri S,Baldon S,Farruggio A,Biasiato R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Systematic surveys with advanced non-invasive imaging techniques have revealed that hepatic cysts are quite common in the general population. Therefore, we retrospectively examined our case series and compared it with the literature. METHODS:Between January 1990 and December 2000, 228 patients with non-parasitic l...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Nardello O,Muggianu M,Cabras V,Farina GP,Cagetti M

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Laparoscopy is not universally accepted as the best approach for pancreatic tumor disease. It is considered an élite surgical approach especially because of the technical difficulties involved; and the highly trained surgeons that are required to perform these operations. In addition, long operation times and lack of ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Milone L,Turner P,Gagner M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Personal preliminary experience with Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum (MIRPE), "Nuss" procedure, using VATS is reported. METHODS:From January 2001 to February 2002, MIRPE has been performed on 5 patients (age range 13-18 y; mean 14.8 y). Under general anesthesia, a curved steel bar is inserted ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Anile M,De Giacomo T,Venuta F,Angelo Rendina E,Andreetti C,Diso D,Coloni GF

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumour is an uncommon disease including 2.7% of exocrine malignancies of the pancreas. Its low incidence is associated with an uncertain prognosis and with difficult diagnostic and therapeutic problems, despite routine use of ultrasonography, TC and RMN. A case of solid pseudopapillary...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Molino D,Perrotti P,Napoli V,Antropoli C,Gargano E,Antropoli M,D'Antonio D,Vicenzo L,Boscaino A,D'Anna L,Guidi G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ward nurses have a central role in postoperative pain management. Pain medication is prescribed by anesthetists and surgeons, but it is ward nurses who spend more time with patients and have the responsibility for assessing patient's pain intensity, administering some prescribed analgesic treatments and monitoring the...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ubino V

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver disease secondary to hepatitis C infection is the most common indication for liver transplantation. Infection of the allograft begins at the time of transplantation. The histological progression of hepatitis C infection is greatly accelerated in liver transplant recipients when compared to the natural history in...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Charlton M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C is one of the leading indications for liver transplantation. Recipients can expect at least a short-term survival equivalent to other indications for liver transplantation. However, the rates of cirrhosis and decompensation development is substantially faster than those rates seen in non-transplant setting...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Saab S,Busuttil RW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The conservative surgery is considered currently the treatment of choice for the carcinoma of the breast in the initial stage. METHODS:From 1993 to the 2000, 46 patients (median age 52 years) affected by intraductal carcinoma of the breast, have been submitted to surgical intervention. In 10 cases (21,7%) a...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Tersigni R,Mencacci R,Alessandroni L,Baiano G,Mardarella C,Parisi A

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell carcinoma of the esophagus is a rare tumor. It was described for the first time in 1952 by McKeown and 200 cases have been reported till now. Because of its similarity with small cell carcinoma of the lung, the treatment of this tumor is controversial. In our Institute we treated three patients with small c...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Brega-Massone PP,Conti B,Lequaglie C,Ferro F,Cataldo I

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the 1980's, thanks to the introduction of new techniques and methods for the study of thyroid function, new light has been shed on certain aspects of thyroid disease that constitute the basis for surgical therapy. Multinodular goiter is a disorder affecting the entire gland, even when alterations mostl...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Basili G,Biagini C,Manetti A,Martini F,Biliotti G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic pneumatosis (CP) is an uncommon but significant condition in adults in which gas is found in a linear or cystic form in the submucosa or the subserosa of the bowel wall. The diagnosis was made by conventional X-ray and confirmed by abdominal computed tomography. Benign pneumoperitoneum due to CP should be consi...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Halkic S,Zeini S,Mosimann F,Gillet M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Italy 250,000 subjects every year are affected by malignant tumors, causing 150,000 deaths/year. The global index (statistic prevalence) of oncological patients, either at first diagnosis, or restored to health or under treatment, aggregates 1 million and 500 thousand individuals. During his whole lifetime, every m...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Russo A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to check the presence and the role of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, in an Ambulatory and Day Surgery Out-Patient Centre. METHODS:Two periods of activity in this Centre are evaluated corresponding separately to the years 1989-1993 and 1994-1998 and the total number of patients, co...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Cherubini M,Sustersich M,Baxa P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors evaluate effectiveness, safety and cosmetic results obtained using the new skin closing system Medizip. METHODS:At the Thoracic Surgery Department of the National Cancer Institute (Milan) between June 1999 and March 2001, in 30 patients who underwent median sternotomy for bilateral pulmonary wed...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Brega Massone PP,Conti B,Magnani B,Lequaglie C,Cataldo I

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between gastroesophageal reflux and respiratory symptoms has been postulated to exist for some time. Several theories support a pathophysiologic relationship. Effective treatment of gastroesophageal reflux-related respiratory symptoms is not standardized. Modification of lifestyle may be beneficial, but...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Greason KL,Miller DL

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1965, Kerr described a type of death, apoptosis, with different characteristics from necrosis. Apoptosis has an important role in the development and cell homeostasis. Excessive or insufficient apoptosis contributes to the pathogenesis of pathology like ischemia, neurodegeneration, autoimmunity, viral infection, an...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Bertolaccini L,Olivero G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors report the gynaecological pathology of surgical interest occurring in an Emergency Department in the first half of 2000 and occasionally found during an operation in women who presented a pelvic mass or abdominal pain. METHODS:Six women, average age of 50 years, reached the Emergency Department:...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Zuccon W,Caputo P,Faccini M,Gambini D,Bonandrini L

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barrett's esophagus is the most serious form of gastroesophageal reflux disease. It may develop due to uncontrolled chronic duodenogastroesophageal reflux and represents a premalignant abnormality. The question of the development of Barrett's esophagus and the progression to adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is addresse...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Klaus A,Mühlmann G,Kirchmayr W,Weiss H,Wetscher GJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of this study is to compare the usual surgical technique with the use of fibrin glue, which is faster to perform and has few histological alterations in the anastomosis. METHODS:We performed 70 microanastomoses on the internal jugular vein of the Sprague-Dawley rats, and we estimated: immediate and...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pelayo Salas,Perez Ruiz L,Marco Estarreado L,Guidolin D,Del Carmen Garcés Guallart M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soft tissue defects are mostly managed surgically by free microvascular flaps. The progressive development of techniques and the availability and reliability of new different and free flaps encouraged this surgical approach. Thus, there is a constant need of free flap models to reproduce in laboratory. The e...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Schonauer F,La Rusca I,Gonzales Y Reyero E,Romagnuolo M,Molea G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate multiple osteochondral autografts for the treatment of traumatic chondral lesions of the knee. METHODS:Twenty-four (19 male and 5 female) patients underwent multiple osteochondral transplantation from 1995 to1999, the age ranging from 19 and 47 years old. Osteochondral lesion was localized on th...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Delcogliano A,Caporaso A,Menghi A,Rinonapoli G,Chiossi S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00