[Subphrenic abscess. Importance of its pathology and ever present diagnostic and therapeutic problems].

Even today subphrenic abscesses constitute a major problem for the surgeons who are at times their involuntary cause. These abscesses are characterised by a high mortality rate and difficulty of treatment. A careful review of the literature and a fortunately modest experience form the basis for an assessment of what has been achieved and what problems still remain with particular reference to new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

[Hydatid cysts of the liver].

Single or multiple hydatid cysts of the liver are frequently observed in Italy and the Mediterranean countries. They are swellings caused by the hexacanth larva of a small cestode, Echinococcus granulosus. This must be distinguished from E.

[A case of aneurysm of the celiac trunk ruptured into the duodenum].

A case of repeated, exsanguinating gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a 36-yr-old man, due to rupture in the duoedenum of an arteriosclerotic aneurysm of the coeliac artery, is described. Selective arteriography enabled the cause of bleeding to be established. The pictures for the coeliac and superior mesenteric arteries showed good hepatic arterial vascularisation via the vessels issuing from the right hand side of the superior mesenteric, immediately after its point of origin.