Publications by authors named "Maria Giovanna Fava"

Mammary Paget's disease is a disorder of the nipple-areola complex of the breast that, while rare, is often associated with an underlying carcinoma. The typical aspect is usually an eczematoid change of the nipple or a red and ulcerative nipple's lesion or erythematous and crusted lesion, with or without mass-like lesion and infiltration and inversion of the nipple. It was described at first by Sir James Paget in 1874, [1] who classified the disease in mammary and extramammary type.

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We present the case of a 73 years old woman with intestinal obstruction caused by a rare cause of biliary ileus, who arrived at our emergency department with lower abdominal quadrants pain (since about 2 months), recently associated with nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension. After clinical and laboratory evaluations, a computed tomography (CT) scan without intravenous contrast medium administration was urgently requested. CT had shown the presence of a large gallstone (diameter of about 6 cms) at the proximal ileum (stopped in this tract after the passage through a biliary-enteric fistula), and another gallstone (diameter of about 2 cms) in the gallbladder, associated with concentric thickening of gallbladder's walls, gas in the biliary tree, obliteration of peri-gallbladder's fat density and fluid in the peri-subhepatic area.

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