Typology and implications of verified attacks on health care in Ukraine in the first 18 months of war.

Attacks on health care are part of the spectrum of threats that health care endures during conflict. Protecting health care services against attacks depends on understanding the nature and types of attacks that occur during conflict. The World Health Organisation has implemented the Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) in Ukraine since 2020, and the system has continued to monitor and report on attacks on health care during the war in Ukraine.

Is it possible to identify a risk factor condition of hypocalcemia in patients candidates to thyroidectomy for benign disease?

Aim: Hypocalcaemia is the most frequent complication after total thyroidectomy. The incidence of postoperative hypocalcaemia is reported with different percentages in literature.

Methods: We report 227 patients undergoing surgery for benign thyroid disease.

Association between primary hyperparathyroidism and thyroid disease. Role of preoperative PTH.

Background: The association between patients with surgically treatable thyroid disease and patients affected by PHPT is not just accidental.

Materials: We report 591 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy in our center. Data, collected during the preoperative period according to our protocol for candidates to total thyroidectomy, included: type of thyroid disease, sex, age, type of surgical procedure, preoperative PTH and plasmatic calcium level.

The node ratio as prognostic factor after curative resection for gastric cancer.

Introduction: The depth of the tumor invasion and nodal involvement are the two main prognostic factors in gastric cancer. Staging systems differ among countries and new tools are needed to interpret and compare results and to reduce stage migration. The node ratio (NR) has been proposed as a new prognostic factor.

Thyroidectomy for differentiated carcinoma in older patients on a short stay basis.

Background: Total thyroidectomy is the treatment of choice for thyroid cancer and for selected benign thyroid conditions. The aging of the general population and the improvements in surgical technique induced an extension of the surgical indications to major thyroid surgery to older patients also on a short stay basis.

Methods: From January 2004 to December 2006, 152 patients affected by thyroid carcinoma underwent total thyroidectomy on a short stay basis.

Survival following resuscitative thoracotomy for combined left ventricle and left atrium ruptures secondary to blunt trauma.

Improvements in pre-hospital care and the development of integrated Trauma Systems have streamlined access for the severely injured to sophisticated, specialist Trauma Centre reception and resuscitation. We describe the initial care of a survivor of combined ruptures of the left ventricle and left atrium secondary to blunt injury. This case emphasises the contribution of such a Trauma System in achieving a favourable outcome for a severely injured trauma patient with injuries previously considered non-survivable.

Dunbar's syndrome and superior mesenteric artery's syndrome: a rare association.

Celiac artery compression syndrome (CACS) and superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMAS) are 2 rare diseases, widely described in literature. Their association has not been specifically investigated; in fact, few cases have been reported. For this reason we reviewed our experience from January 1974 to June 2004.