Primary jejunogastric intussusception: A case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Jejunogastric intussusception following gastric surgery is a rare complication that, if not diagnosed early, can have catastrophic outcomes.

Presentation Of Case: We have reported a case, never described previously, of an acute spontaneous retrograde JGI, presenting with obstruction and hematemesis, in a 70-year-old woman who has never, previously, undergone abdominal surgery.

Discussion: As in all cases of intestinal intussusception, early diagnosis is important for acute JGI as mortality rates increase from 10% when the intervention occurs within 48 h.

Ground glass opacities management in the lung cancer screening era.

Pulmonary ground glass opacity (GGO) is becoming an important clinical dilemma in oncology as its diagnosis in clinical practice is increasing due to the introduction of low dose computed tomography (CT) scan and screening. The incidence of cancer in GGO has been reported as high as 63%. The purpose of this manuscript is to review best available evidence papers on management of GGO in lung cancer to address the following questions: (I) how to correlate CT findings with malignancy; (II) when and who operate? (III) how to perform intraoperative detection of intrapulmonary GGO? (IV) wedge, segmentectomy or lobectomy? Taking a cue from a clinical scenario, a review on PubMed was conducted.

Safety of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer in a low-volume unit.

Several studies have demonstrated that for complex surgical procedures, surgeons who treat more patients have better outcomes than their lower-volume counterparts. The aim of this paper is to review the experience with video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomies in our small thoracic unit (group A), to understand whether our short-term results were different to the outcomes obtained by the same surgeon previously working in a high-volume unit (group B). 37 patients underwent VATS lobectomy.

Awake uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for complications after pneumonectomy.

Since 1998, we started a clinical program for awake video-assisted thoracic surgery in our unit using four-step local anesthesia and sedation. Throughout the years, we experienced several difficult cases, three of them had complications postpneumonectomy. The aim of this paper is to report these three cases.

Preliminary experience with video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung malignancies: general considerations moving toward standard practice.

As part of the Second Catania Symposium on Thoracic Oncology, as we started the experience with video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung malignancies, we reviewed our data and argued some comments in a more general discussion. Operated patients with non-small-cell lung cancer were divided in two groups and compared: VATS (collected in a prospective database) and open (historical group). Out of 74 patients, 31 in group A and 44 in group B.