abstract：:The authors relate their experience of 62 cases of minicholecystectomy. This procedure is compared to "open" conventional and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Report results and the analysis of the literature shows that the technique of cholecystectomy by minilaparotomy is a valid option to laparoscopic cholecystectomy a...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Gaetini A,Camandona M,De Simone M,Giaccone M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer of the extrahepatic biliary tract is a rare disease related to a severe prognosis. The resection of the extrahepatic biliary tract is a complex procedure and the preoperative assessment of resectability is made difficult because of the malignancies. Biliary cancer resection can be curative in some patients but ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： La Greca G,Puleo S,Li Destri G,Di Carlo I,Lombardo R,Rodolico M,Di Cataldo A,Licata A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Mirizzi's syndrome are reported. The syndrome consists of: external compression of the common bile duct due to a benign lesion (Type I)--presence of a cholecystobiliary fistula with impacted stones and partial or total obstruction of the hepatic duct (Type II). Clinical signs are non-specific and suggest ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Siragusa G,Giuffrida MC,Mezzatesta P,De Simone M,Gelarda E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their experience in the treatment of perforated peptic ulcer. From August 1992 to December 1995 a total of 23 patients (14 cases of gastric ulcer and 9 cases of duodenal ulcer), mean age 67.5 years, underwent emergency surgery for perforated peptic ulcer. The operations performed included: simple ga...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Coluccio G,Fornero G,Rosato L

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

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：:In a previous study, we have shown that caerulein relieves biliary colic pain in gallstone patients. This study was initiated to determine gallbladder and sphincter of Oddi behaviour during biliary colic and their response to caerulein. In 10 gallstone patients gallbladder volume was measured by real-time ultrasonogra...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pizzuto G,Surgo D,Nasorri L,Marsico R,Tretola V,Raparelli L,Grasso E,Materia A,Basso N

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their experience using biofragmentable anastomosis ring (BAR) in bowel anastomosis. Starting January 1993 to February 1994, 46 intestinal anastomoses were performed using BAR, and particularly 39 end-to-end colo-colostomies, 2 end-to-side colo-colostomies and 5 end-to-side ileo-colostomies. 35 patie...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ragni F,Braga M,Balzano R,Piccini I,Pezzola D,Pinelli D,Pasini M,Roncali S,Ghedi M,Damiani E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors underline that, although rarely found, leiomyomas of the gastrointestinal tract are the most frequent benign tumours of the small intestine. On occasions, from being a simple autoptic finding or diagnosed during the course of explorative laparotomy, they may be responsible for emergency abdominal surgery, ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Piemonte F,D'Avino V,Barone G,Di Marzo S,Rizzo GM,Costanzo G,Mercogliano A,De Simone G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymoma is the most common primary neoplasm of the tymus. The majority of thymomas are encapsulated masses and exhibit benign behavior. Less frequently they may be invasive, or rarely they may metastasize to distant sites. The usual clinical presentation is that of an anterior mediastinal mass found accidentally in an...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Riccio PA,Zingaretti C,Milani M,Ricci Petitoni G,Monti G,Pavanello PM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatoblastoma is a very rare tumor of the pancreas, affecting children in the first decade of life. Ultrasound and CT scan may be useful but pre-operative diagnosis is often quite difficult. High level of seric alpha-fetoprotein could be suggestive of pancreatoblastoma. The definitive diagnosis is however made by ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Latteri S,Russo G,Vecchio R,Meli G,Latteri F

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomical region identified with the "head and neck region" has got the highest functional concentration of the human body and the highest incidence of malignant tumours per unit of surface. A pathology, that forced to serious and destroying surgical interventions in this area, will carry necessarily out a series...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Cianfriglia F,Manieri A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Totally implantable central venous accesses systems are presently widely used in cancer patients. Perioperative and long-term morbidity of 750 consecutive implants performed from 1985 to 1994 were retrospectively reviewed. Our Series consisted in 616 (82.1%). Ports and 134 (17.9%) external tunnelled catheters with sub...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Bertoglio S,Meszsaros P,Disomma C,Moresco L,Cafiero F,Gipponi M,Percivale P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura represent a rare clinicopathological entity: 456 cases only have been reported since 1991. A interesting case of solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura is described here, because it turned up in a female patient followed up for a bilateral breast cancer and so with the exact determi...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Trombetta F,Sandrucci S,Moscato R,Satolli MA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primitive tumor of the liver, associated with cirrhosis with 40-80% of incidence, isn't one of the most common malignant neoplasms in the western area but it holds low survival and diminished possibilities of radical exeresis. A few years ago it has enrolled several non-invasive imaging-guided techniques, alternative ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Fuertes Guirò F,Vantadori MG,D'Urbano C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholangiography carried out in laparoscopic surgery is a diagnostic exam considered by many authors to be very important for the anatomy and the research pre-existent pathologies of the biliary tree. Such are the effective advantages that many Schools suggest it be carried out any case as the risks, the costs and the ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pitrelli N,DiBartolomeo N,Grossi S

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uremic patients in hemodialytic treatment have the same opportunity to be affected with hydatid disease as healthy people. However, because these patients usually have an immunodeficiency syndrome, it is always necessary to evaluate correctly the most common immune diagnostic procedures; furthermore the clinical appro...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Vaccaro F,Pagano A,Romano G,Romano G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdomen and pelvic radiation therapy, as a complement to medical and surgery therapy in malignancies, may determine acute and chronic intestinal injuries. The acute intestinal effects of ionizing radiation are the necrosis of crypt epithelial cells and the cessation of the intestinal epithelium; late radiation injury ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Pagano A,Vaccaro F,Romano G,Romano G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1989 and December 1994 we accomplished 130 CT-guided transthoracic fine needle aspirations (FNA) in 120 patients. Ten patients underwent a second FNA because of the negativity and doubts of the first. Diagnosis was targeted in 114 (95%) patients and 89% showed cytological evidence of malignancy. FNA-CT...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Chisari A,Nicolosi M,Tornambene F,Compagnone S,Pulvirenti G,Guarino D,Deodato G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors starting from two observed cases of gallstone ileus, describe of these, the pathogenesis, the diagnostic difficulty, and they express their opinion with regard to surgical treatment to execute, related to the data reported by the authors and from their own experience. ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Ottenello M,Santi F,Fabiano F,Bertirotti S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the paper is to give a contribution to the understanding of the role of surgery in patients with N3 lung cancer. The A. describe their results on 32 patients with N3 lung cancer operated on mediastinectomy; histological examination of the specimens showed 27 squamous cell carcinomas and 5 adenocarcinomas. T...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Politi L,Bresadola V,Ferrandu T,De Anna D

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucocele of the appendix is a rare lesion (only 0;2-0.3% of all appendicectomies). It is characterized by distension of the lumen within mucus. Mucoceles are often asymptomatic and are discovered as an incidental finding either at surgery or during barium edema. There have been reports of other tumors associated with ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Zullo A,Botto G,Pastormerlo M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between April 1992 and May 1994, 45 patients with recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax underwent videoassisted thoracoscopy (group I). The mean chest tube duration, the length of hospital stay, the use of parenteral narcotics, the complications and the follow-up were analyzed and compared to the same data of a group of ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： De Giacomo T,Lena A,Rendina EA,Venuta F,Flaishman I,Ricci C

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic intubation is a popular palliative method to resolve immediately malignant dysphagia. However, the complication rate is still high. Between 1978 and 1993, at the Division of Diagnostic and Surgical Endoscopy of Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan, 305 patients suffering from malignant dysphagia, were endosco...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Spinelli P,Cerrai FG,Casella G,Mancini A,Meroni E,Pizzetti P,Schiavo M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastro-intestinal tuberculosis (TB) continues to give rise to diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Its increasing incidence and multiple and non-specificity of symptoms and signs require special attention to establish a prompt diagnosis and not to delay treatment. The authors describe on case of colonic TB presentin...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： D'Urbano C,Thodas A,Assisi F,Fuertes Guiró F,Perelli Ercolini M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe their experience of the aneurysm popliteal artery. They analyze the symptomatology, the diagnostic way and the therapy of such disease. ...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Giavazzi T,Luppi C,Tognoli S,Zola C

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their personal experience of the "excision and primary suture" operating technique in the surgical treatment of pilonidal sinus. A rapid recovery by postoperative day 10 was achieved in 58 out of 60 cases treated (96.7%). Dehiscence of the surgical wound was observed in 2 cases (3.3%) following isch...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Calcina G,Setti P,Benati L,Savioli A,Galli G

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1973 and 1992 153 patients with Graves' disease were observed at the Surgery and Oncology Institute-Cagliari University. 103 underwent subtotal (70) or total (33) thyroidectomy, while 50(after 1985) were submitted to radioactive-iodine therapy. Surgical indications were failure of antithyroid drug therapy, sig...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Nicolosi A,Meleddu C,Meleddu G,Massidda B,Calò PG,Pinna M,Tarquini A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of granular cell tumor of the breast arising in a 38-year old man. Preoperative diagnosis was of breast carcinoma. However, frozen sections showed the benign nature of the tumour. It is important to identify this lesion as, in spite of a clinical and mammographic similarity with carcinoma, it...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Reale D,Guarino M,Squillaci S,Bianchini E,Forloni B,Merisio I,Pascale M,Micoli G

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Breast reconstruction has become an available option for most patients undergoing mastectomy: in fact many authors agree that breast reconstruction does not interfere with possible therapies and improves the quality of life of women. The aim of the study was to evaluate the psychological adjustment of patients who had...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Franchelli S,Leone MS,Passarelli B,Perniciaro G,Capelli M,Baracco G,Alberisio A,Santi PL

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Five hundred and twenty (520) patients with lung resection for cancer and known follow-up were studied. The aim of the study was to analyse long-term results in relation to the age of the patients. Two hundred and forty (240) cases were less than 55 years old, 227 were aged between 55 and 65 years, 53 were aged over 6...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Di Giorgio A,Sammartino P,Arnone P,Canavese A,Cardini CL,Alessandrina A,Corsetti FB,Palloti M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the common bile duct is now accessed using a coelioscopic approach by an increasing number of surgical equipes, the problems related to the diagnostic iter of lithiasis of the common bile duct and the need to obtain a correct preoperative diagnosis, in order to select the most appropriate form of therapy, are...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Moscatiello P,Chollet JM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystolithotomy and cholecystojejunostomy has been carried out on 11 patients with severe hypertension from cirrhosis. The indications were frequently recurring attacks of biliary cholic or acute cholecystitis at onset. There was 1 postoperative death from cardiac infarction and only minor in-hospital morbidity. N...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Confalonieri F,Ballerini A,Santangelo A,Turra G

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:We have reported two patients with unilateral adrenal hyperplasia as a rare cause of primary aldosteronism, and discussed the literature on this subject. When diagnosed by NMR-CT imaging and selective sampling from adrenal veins, the treatment of this disorder appears to be surgical. Whether its pathogenesis is relate...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Angelini L,Bezzi M,Chiarot M,Coppola M,Eleuteri E,Martone N,Ferri C,Carlomagno A,Balsano F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior partial fundoplication can be as effective as total fundoplication in the long-term control of gastroesophageal reflux if the gastric fundus valve is encircled around the distal esophagus for no less than 270 degrees to obtain effective pressures in the newly built sphincter. In order to minimize the adverse...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Mussa A,Sandrucci S,Giugno G,Roy L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep venous thrombosis is a quite frequent pathology with a high degree of morbidity and death-rate. Two are the main problems of this disease: the risk of pulmonary embolism and outcome of a post-thrombotic syndrome, leading patients to infirmity. The patients max exposed to the risk of deep venous thrombosis are the...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Occhionorelli S,Vasquez G,Santini M,Rocca T,Navarra G,Carcoforo P,Pollinzi V,Mascoli F,Donini I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine consecutive patients with early gastric cancer (EGC), observed from January 1978 to December 1992 in the Surgery Department of our Institute, were included in a retrospective study. The EGC prevalence in the overall cases of gastric cancer was 11%. This frequency was 8% in the period 1978-1985 and 15% in th...

journal_title：Minerva chirurgica

authors： Leo S,Taveri R,Campanella GA,Lorusso D,Pezzolla F,Bonfiglio C

更新日期：1994-12-01 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