[Preservative surgery of the kidney for haemorrhagic angiomyolipoma: a report of two cases].

Renal angiomyolipomas are very rare benign tumours (3% of renal tumours) that may present as isolated tumours or tumours associated with other pathologies, particularly tuberous sclerosis (40%), neurofibro-matosis, or Sturge-Webers disease. Clinically, renal angiomyolipoma is asymptomatic until the tumour becomes larger than 4 cm, causing urinary symptoms such as pain, infection, and microhaematuria. Rarely, in cases of large hypervascularised lesions, the clinical picture at onset may consist in spontaneous haemorrhage due to vessel rupture.

[Treatment of splenic trauma in paediatric age].

The splenic trauma in children presents some peculiarity that differentiates it from that one in adult age. Therefore we have see again our relative experience on splenic trauma, in the period 2001-2006, confronting two groups of patients, one of inferior age to fourteen years (A Group) and one of advanced age (B Group). We have estimated the following parameters: aetiology, type of lesion, association with others trauma, type of treatment, compliance, mortality, number of transfusions and hospital stay.

[Duodenal angiodysplasia and Turner's syndrome. Case report].

Unlabelled: The Turner's syndrome is the most common chromosomic disease in the women and touches 1:2,500 women born live. The most important anomaly is the presence of short stature and ovarian failure. Others disorders are increasing in case reports: osteoporosis, hypothyroidism, renal diseases and gastroenteric diseases.

[The meshes of polypropylene in emergency surgery for strangulated hernias and incisional hernias].

Introduction: The Authors present their experience on the use of meshes of polypropylene in septic surgery of the abdominal wall defects.

Materials And Methods: From April 1999 to October 2003, 23 patients underwent intestinal resection (20 small intestine, 3 large intestine) for ischemic necrosis strangulation caused by defects in the abdominal wall (inguinal hernia 8, crural hernia 4, umbilical hernia 3, post-incisional hernia under umbilicus 3, post-incisional hernia epigastric 3, giant post-incisional hernia 2).

Results: No patient died and the removal of the mesh was never required in cases of infection of the surgical wound; 2 surgical wounds festered, with the reopening of the cutaneous wound and showing of the prosthesis, 5 hygromas were all treated in a conservative way.

[Surgical complications for gastric and small bowel metastases due to primary lung carcinoma].

Lung carcinoma is the first cause of death for tumors; in Italy there are from 35,000 to 40,000 new cases a year, with a global survival to 5 years from the diagnosis in 13% of cases. The gastric and small bowel metastases are rare, respectively 0.4% and 1.