[Use of the rendez-vous technique in endoscopic insertion of biliary prosthesis in malignant obstructive jaundice].

The paper describes the Authors' personal experience of the use of the rendez-vous technique (using a combined endoscopic-transhepatic route) for the endoscopic insertion of biliary prosthesis in cases of malignant obstructive jaundice. Having illustrated the series of cases, the paper proposes the use of this technique in the event of endoscopic failure due to the smaller incidence of complications compared the use of a wholly transhepatic route.

Single-shot (short-term) prophylaxis with ceftriaxone in biliary surgery.

A short-term prophylaxis based on a one-shot injection 30 min before operation of 2 g ceftriaxone has been used in 20 cases, in patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy or biliary tract surgery for gall-stones. The prophylaxis with ceftriaxone proved to be successful in all patients.

[Emergencies in the surgery of colonic neoplasms. A review of the literature and the authors' cases].

The paper reports the personal experience of the 2nd Division of General Surgery of the Martini Hospital in Turin and compares it to the results of the most recently published studies. Of 123 patients who underwent emergency surgery, 101 were suffering from tumors of the colon complicated by intestinal occlusion and 22 by perforation. Only right hemicolectomy was performed in cases of perforation or resection with ileostomy and colic mucous fistula was used for neoplasms located in the right colon; Hartmann's operation or dual ostomy was performed in the event of neoplasms in the left colon.

[Campylobacter pylori infection. Results of an investigation of 130 patients].

After recalling the main data on diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of CP infection, the results of a study on 130 patients are presented.