Diabetic mastopathy: case report.

Unlabelled: Diabetic mastopathy is a rare fibro-inflammatory breast disease, which occurs in premenopausal women affected by longstanding type I insulin-dependent diabetes. It is a benign disease and it is often misunderstood for its clinical and radiological features that may mimic a breast cancer. The diagnosis of diabetic mastopathy is based on histological examination and it is characterized by lymphocytic lobulitis with glandular atrophy and perivascular lymphocytic infiltration.

Can we define a role for perisentinel lymph-nodes on breast cancer disease?

Background: The development of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer disease and the increasing of using adjuvant systemic therapy provide a rational reduction of axillary dissection in patients with Sentinel Lymph Nodes free from breast cancer cells. The aim of our study was to assess the state of the perisentinel lymph nodes removed and how these nodes can provide further information about the status of the axillary lymph nodes.

Materials And Methods: We have analysed data about 319 patients undergoing surgery for benign and malignant breast disease from January 2007 to July 2010; 134 cases were subjected to the sentinel lymph node biopsy; 29 cases of these patients had the presence of perisentinel lymph nodes at histological examination.

[A video-aided minilaparocholecystectomy].

Aim: The main objective is to prospectively evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of minilaparocholecystectomy combined with videolaparoscopic view in cases of complicated gallstones where VLC was risky.

Material Of Study: We carried out minilaparotomic video-aided cholecystectomy on 110 patients (32 males and 78 females) with preoperative diagnosis of intraabdominal adhesions or biliary severe inflammation.

Result: No significant intra or postoperative complications was reported and in all cases pain was never greater than that reported after VLC.

Gastric metastasis from breast carcinoma. Report of three cases, diagnostic-therapeutic critical close examination and literature review.

Gastric metastases of breast cancer represent a not so rare event in patients affected. In fact, it occurs in 0.3% of cases.

Giant Merkel cell carcinoma of the left arm. Case report.

Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare tumor of dermal origin generally found in sun exposed skin. We report the case of a woman of 76 years old presenting a large vascularized Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of the left arm lateral to the elbow joint, infiltrating the muscolo-fascial plane who was treated with surgical therapy and post operative radiotherapy.

Use of axillary ultrasonography in breast cancer: a useful tool to reduce sentinel node procedures.

Aim Of The Study: The lymph node sentinel method is today used for staging the axillary lymph node stations. Ultrasonography is widely available and inexpensive method to study axillary status.

Methods: One hundred fourteen patients were studied consecutively using axillary ultrasonography and ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration of the lymph node.