Integration of tablet technologies in the e-laboratory of cytology: a health technology assessment.

Introduction: Although tablet systems are becoming a powerful technology, particularly useful in every application of medical imaging, to date no one has investigated the acceptance and performance of this technology in digital cytology. The specific aims of the work were (1) to design a health technology assessment (HTA) tool to assess, in terms of performance and acceptance, the introduction of tablet technologies (wearable, portable, and non portable) in the e-laboratories of cytology and (2) to test the tool in a first significant application of digital cytology.

Materials And Methods: An HTA tool was proposed operating on a domain of five dimensions of investigation comprising the basic information of the product of digital cytology, the perceived subjective quality of images, the assessment of the virtual navigation on the e-slide, the assessment of the information and communication technologies features, and the diagnostic power.

[Primary hydatid cyst of the coracobrachial muscle. A clinical case].

Primary localization of hydatidosis in the musculoskeletal system is a quite rare occurrence. We report a case of a 67 year old man with an infestation of the coracobrachialis muscle. We discuss several instrumental and serologic diagnosis methods and the hypothesis of a primary muscular localization.

[Prosthetic repair of hernias and laparocele. Our experience with Goretex prosthesis].

For about ten years repair of inguinal or abdominal hernias using prosthetic materials has been in routine use in general surgery. Various experimental and clinical observations of surgical physiopathology have been proved that the most important cause of recidivation is abnormal tension between diastasis tissues. From the beginning of 1991, in the Surgical Department of "Clinica S.

[Update on laparoscopic surgery: on the treatment of hydatid cyst of the liver and peritonitis caused by a perforated duodenal ulcer].

Laparoscopic surgery represents a real innovation with respect to the traditional laparotomic way of access, owing to its undeniable advantages, both intraoperative and postoperative. This new technique reduces the complications connected with the surgical wound and with forced allerement. Therefore it allows the patient's fast recovery.