Five-year results of implants inserted into freeze-dried block allografts.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome after 5 years of allografts as bone growth material and success of implants inserted in fresh-frozen allograft bone.

Materials And Methods: A total of 20 patients were operated and 41 onlay block freeze-dried allografts (calvarial and iliac crest) were inserted for bone augmentation. A total of 64 dental implants were performed in a two-stage procedure.

Topical glyceryl trinitrate in the treatment of anal fissure.

Aim: the aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of topical glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in the treatment of anal fissure.

Patients: eighty consecutive patients were randomized to receive 0.2% GTN gel twice a day during a minimum of 6 weeks.

Laparoscopic management of Spigelian hernia.

Spigelian hernia (SH) is an uncommon abdominal wall hernia. Its clinical symptoms are not characteristic, and the preoperative diagnosis is often difficult because SH can simulate the symptoms of more classical lower quadrant abdominal diseases. We report a case of SH in an 80-year-old woman that was complicated by incarceration and diagnosed by physical examination and ultrasound.