Blood cell differential count discretisation modelling to predict survival in adults reporting to the emergency room: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: To assess the survival predictivity of baseline blood cell differential count (BCDC), discretised according to two different methods, in adults visiting an emergency room (ER) for illness or trauma over 1 year.

Design: Retrospective cohort study of hospital records.

Setting: Tertiary care public hospital in northern Italy.

Diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic incidentalomas. An overview.

Aim: The aim of this study is to describe the incidence, imaging characteristics and pathological features of pancreatic incidentalomas. Moreover, surgical indications are discussed according to the nature and location of the neoplasms.

Background: Pancreatic incidental lesions are more commonly diagnosed, due to the widespread of high quality cross sectional imaging.

Small Bowel Intussusception Due to Rare Cardiac Intimal Sarcoma Metastasis: A Case Report.

Intimal sarcomas are rare malignant mesenchymal tumors arising from the heart and large blood vessels. Their intraluminal growth leads to vascular obstructive symptoms and peripheral neoplastic embolization. Direct infiltration of the lungs or metastases to the pulmonary system, occur in 40% of cases and extrathoracic spread is frequent, also in presentation.

Robotic laparoscopic right colectomy - the burden of age and comorbidity in perioperative outcomes: An observational study.

Background: Several studies have shown the safety, feasibility and oncologic adequacy of robotic right hemicolectomy (RRH). Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy (LRH) is considered technically challenging. Robotic surgery has been introduced to overcome this technical limitation, but it is related to high costs.

Mid-transverse colon cancer and extended versus transverse colectomy: Results of the Italian society of surgical oncology colorectal cancer network (SICO CCN) multicenter collaborative study.

Introduction: Transverse colon cancer (TCC) is poorly studied, and TCC cases are often excluded from large prospective randomized trials because of their complexity and their potentially high complication rate. The best surgical approach for TCC has yet to be established. The aim of this large retrospective multicenter Italian series is to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of both hemicolectomy and transverse colectomy in order to identify the best surgical approach.