Management of Small Bowel Perforation by a Bizarre Foreign Body in a 55-Year-Old Woman.

Introduction: Ingestion of foreign bodies including dentures, fishbone, screw, and/or surgical devices can be a cause of morbidity, and it rarely could be fatal.

Presentation Of Case: We present the first hitherto reported case of mussel shell ingestion, which caused acute abdominal pain in a 55-year-old woman. The shell pierced ileal loops, and it was found in the abdominal cavity.

Conservative Management of Chronic Anal Fissure. Results of a Case Series at 2-years Follow-up and Proposition of a New Classification.

Background: Anal fissure is a common proctological condition that is usually defined as an anodermal ulcerative process starting from the posterior commissure to the dentate line. The objective of this study was to evaluate the resolution rate of anal fissure through the use of conservative management in patients grouped according to our newly proposed classification. A secondary purpose was to quantify the recurrence rates at 2-years follow-up in each group.

ABSI (A Body Shape Index) and ARI (Anthropometric Risk Indicator) in Bariatric Surgery. First Application on a Bariatric Cohort and Possible Clinical Use.

Background: BMI (body mass index) is used to identify candidates for bariatric surgery, with a criterion of BMI ≥ 40. For lesser degrees of obesity, BMI 35-39.9, comorbidities are also considered.

Bariatric Surgery and Infertility: A Prospective Study.

Background: Obesity is a worldwide disease affecting 13% of the world's adult female population. The reasons and the fetal risk are still unclear. The effect of weight loss as a result of bariatric surgery seems to induce an improvement in fertility in obese women.

Transformation of organic wastes in soil: effect on bentazone behaviour.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of two organic wastes from olive oil production on the fate of bentazone in soil, and to assess the influence of the transformation of organic matter from these wastes under field conditions. Results on freshly laboratory-amended soils were compared to those with soils amended in the field for nine consecutive years. Two amendments and two doses were studied.

Thromboembolic tendency (TE) in IBD (Inflammatory bowel disease) patients.

Background: The incidence of TE events in IBD patients is higher then in population control. The main reason of it, is the hypercoaugulable state. Our aim was to detect serum markers related to TE, that can assume preventing and prognostic meanings.

Effect of the herbicides terbuthylazine and glyphosate on photosystem II photochemistry of young olive (Olea europaea) plants.

The purpose of this study was to understand the effect produced by the addition of the herbicides terbuthylazine (N(2)-tert-butyl-6-chloro-N(4)-ethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine) and glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) on photosystem II photochemistry of young plants of Olea europaea L. under greenhouse conditions. The effect of soil amendment with an organic residue from olive oil production was also assessed.

Diathermy haemorrhoidectomy: reasons for a therapeutic choice.

Background: Diathermy haemorrhoidectomy is an effective technique for the management of 2nd, 3rd and 4th degree haemorrhoids. The anal cushions are excised by use of diathermy without ligature of the vascular pedicles. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of this technique.

Long-term results of abdominal salvage surgery following restorative proctocolectomy.

Background: This study evaluated outcomes of patients who underwent abdominal salvage ileal pouch redo surgery and identified factors associated with pouch failure following restorative proctocolectomy.

Methods: Data on patients who underwent abdominal salvage surgery in a tertiary referral centre between 1985 and 2003 were collected. Outcomes studied included failure of salvage and bowel function of patients with an intact intestine.

[Clinical study on the pharmacological treatment of hemorrhoids with 0.25% oxethacaine chlorhydrate].

In this clinical study, the authors refer to a thirty-six month treatment of Grades I and II haemorrhoids (pharmacological treatment) with a group of 75 patients (45 females and 30 males) and treatment for Grades III and IV haemorrhoids (Pharmacological and surgical treatment) on a second group of 23 patients for a total of 98 patients treated and observed. For the pharmacological treatment, a rectal cream containing 0.25% Oxethacaine chlorhydrate (Emoren, produced by Novasorel, srl) was used on all patients.

Case report: laparoscopic cholecystectomy in situs viscerum inversus.

Situs viscerum inversus is a rare condition, in which the organs are transposed from their normal location in the opposite side of the body. The inversion of L-R asymmetry may be complete (SVI totalis) or partial (SVI partialis), whereby transposition is confined to either the abdominal or thoracic viscera. The authors report a case of videolaparocholecystectomy for cholelithiasis successfully performed on a 41-year-old Caucasian woman with situs viscerum inversus totalis.

Laparoscopic approach for treatment of a primary splenic cyst.

We present the case of a 24-year-old woman with a symptomatic primary splenic cyst, and we relate our first experience with laparoscopic resection of the extrasplenic wall of the cyst. The procedure was successful, and the patient was discharged asymptomatic two days following surgery. We describe the surgical technique used and comment on some pathologic and tactical aspects.

[Chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy and ectodermal dysplasia].

A boy, 5 year aged, admitted in intensive therapy room because affected by respiratory insufficiency, is reported. Recurrent lower respiratory tract infections and three surgical operation in the lacrimal ducts were present in the anamnesis. Clinical and radiologic features of chronic obstructive pneumonia were present.

[Bronchiolitis. Our clinical experience in the 4 years from 1981 to 1984].

The clinical experience of 661 children with bronchiolitis is reported in four-years period to gain a better understanding of diagnosis and pathogenesis of bronchiolitis. Upper airways infections, expiratory dyspnea, clear sound by chest percussion, vesicular rales and whistling by chest auscultation, air trapping on the chest radiography were considered as essential data of diagnosis. It was found in 595 patients: expiratory dyspnea, air trapping, vesicular r.