[Intestinal intussusception due to metastatic melanoma: a case report].

Although the gastrointestinal tract is a fairly frequent site of melanoma metastases, reports of small bowel intussusception caused by this condition are rare. The presence of intestinal metastases is an expression of what is already a disease at an advanced stage and, therefore, the prognosis of these patients is generally poor with only sporadic cases of long-term survival after resective surgery. We describe the case of a patient referred to our department with a clinical picture of frank occlusion.

[Thyroid hemiagenesis associated with Flajani's disease and papillary carcinoma. A case report].

Non-development of a thyroid lobe is a rare abnormality. The condition is normally diagnosed incidentally in the course of investigations performed for the coexistence of pathological conditions and/or functional disorders of the gland. We report a case of thyroid hemiagenesis in a patient suffering from Flajani's disease whom we submitted to total thyroidectomy due to the simultaneous presence of a papillary carcinoma.

[Day surgery management of varicocele with Doppler-assisted dissection at the external inguinal ring (subinguinal varicocelectomy)].

We performed a total of 172 varicocelectomies with the subinguinal technique in 151 patients. Of these, 129 patients (85%), undergoing a total of 140 varicocelectomies, were monitored for at least one year (11 had bilateral varicocele) with a mean follow-up of 3 years. Ninety-nine of these (77%) presented preoperative semen abnormalities and 62 (48%) had infertility problems.