[Intestinal endometriosis: a case report].

Endometriosis is seldom of interest to the general surgeon, since it is generally an exclusively gynaecological condition. Atypical locations, however, do fall within the domain of general surgery. Extra-gynaecological endometriosis denotes an ectopic localization of functional endometrial tissue, a finding whose incidence is increasing due to the increasingly widespread use of laparoscopic procedures in chronic abdominal pain and infertility.

Laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection in the colon: a preliminary report.

Endocopic mucosal resection of flat villous tumours or giant polyps (> 3 cm) may give rise to local complications such as haemorrhage or perforation because of the very thin wall of the colon, above all in the right half. Our aim was to evaluate whether laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic excision of flat villous tumours or giant polyps (> 3 cm) can be safely performed, avoiding critical septic complications and can also help in the selection of patients to be submitted to colonic resection without increasing morbidity or mortality. The procedure is a new minimally invasive therapeutic approach in selected cases with large, sessile or awkwardly located polyps.

[Extra-ampullary duodenal neoplasms].

The authors report on twelve cases of non-ampullary duodenal neoplasm and remark the rarity of this pathology. According to the literature, the traditional endoscopy is the mainstay diagnostic test, because of aspecific digestive symptoms, but the authors stress the importance of the "longue" endoscopy or endoscopy integrated with duodenography in non-responders patients who had non-diagnostic traditional endoscopy for neoplasm. Duodeno-cephalo-pancreatectomy and segmentary duodenal resection are proposed by tumor site.

Large bowel multiple tumours.

The medical records of all patients with colorectal cancer seen at the "G. Marinaccio" Department of Surgery in Bari between 1997 and 2004 were examined. Cases included in the study met the criteria advocated by Warren and Gates and Moertel et al.