Gastroduodenal major haemorrhages in critical patients: an original surgical technique.

Aim: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding represents today a serious pathology with two important problems: mortality and correct management. Our study is a review of recent and past licterature about causes, diagnosis and treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

Personal Experience: The Authors describe an original surgical technique in treating patients with gastroduodenal haemorrhages and critical circulatory-coagulative conditions.

[Emergency colonic surgery: analysis of risk factors predicting morbidity and mortality].

The aim of the present study was to identify risk factors for morbidity and mortality in patients submitted to emergency colonic surgery. Between 1997 and 2008 157 patients, 106 of whom affected by colon cancer (67.5%) and 51 by benign disease (32.

[Cervico-mediastinal teratoma. A case report and review of the liberature].

Cervical teratomas are very rare tumors. Actually, most of the times they appear as a cervical extension of a mediastinal teratoma due or to intracystic haemorrhage and/or a higher content of pancreatic tissue. Progressive growth and compression on adjacent organs, as the tracheo-bronchial tract in our case, can be the arising symptoms that determine hospital admission of the patient.