[The abdominal compartment syndrome and the importance of decompressive re-laparotomy].

Background: the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (ACS) is an increasingly recognized complication of both medical and surgical patients. The World Society of the Abdominal Compartmental Syndrome defined Intra Abdominal Hypertension (IAH) as a mean Intra Abdominal Pressure (IAP) ≥ 12 mm Hg and the ACS as IAP ≥ 20 mmHg (with or without an abdominal perfusion pressure < 60 mm Hg) that is associated with dysfunction or failure of one or more organ systems that was not previously present. The IAH contributes to organ failure in patients with abdominal trauma and sepsis and leads to the development of ACS.

[The sentinel lymph node mapping in colon cancer].

Background: malignant tumors of the colon can metastases along the lymphatic system in a sequential way, which means that there will be a first node to be involved and then from this disease will pass to another node and so gradually. The sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node or group of nodes reached by metastasizing cancer cells from a tumor.

Objectives: the present work aims to determine the predictive value of the sentinel lymph node procedure in the staging of non-metastatic colon cancer.

[Covering stoma in anterior rectum resection with TME for rectal cancer in elderly patients].

Aim: The aim of our study is to evaluate the advisability of covering stoma in Anterior Rectum Resection with TME in elderly patients.

Methods And Materials: A research of both the Ministry of Health and Terni Hospital databases has been conducted so as to collect information about patients with rectal tumor. Such research allowed to identify the amount of patients diagnosed with rectal cancer, the type of intervention, and the average hospitalization time.