Automated Natural Language Processing-Based Supplier Discovery for Financial Services.

Public procurement is viewed as a major market force that can be used to promote innovation and drive small and medium-sized enterprises growth. In such cases, procurement system design relies on intermediates that provide vertical linkages between suppliers and providers of innovative services and products. In this work we propose an innovative methodology for decision support in the process of supplier discovery, which precedes the final supplier selection.

A rare case of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis with bowel perforation and secondary sepsis.

Materials And Methods: We present here the case of an 83 y.o. male with intestinal perforation from pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis and consequent sepsis.

The “Watch and wait” approach following chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer: a case series and review of literature.

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) combined with total mesorectal excision (TME) is currently the gold standard for locally advanced low-lying rectal cancer (LACR). Around 20-30% of patients after NCRT can achieve clinical complete response (cCR); 5-44% of the patients who underwent TME achieve pathological complete response (pCR) on postoperative histopathologic studies. In the present study we perform a review of current Literature and retrospectively analyze our personal experience on “watch and wait” approach after cCR.

High ligation of sapheno-femoral junction and thermal ablation for lower limb primary varicosity in day hospital setting.

Aim: The traditional surgical treatment for lower limb primary varicosity has been for a long time high ligation of sapheno-femoral junction and stripping of great saphenous vein. Surgery, however, has been frustrated by postoperative pains and discomfort and recurrences so that it has been challenged by minimally invasive endovenous techniques such as laser treatment and radiofrequency ablation. The aim of the article is to assess the feasibility, in a day hospital setting, of a combined approach to greater saphenous vein reflux: high ligation of sapheno-femoral junction and thermal treatment of the great sapenous vein.

Extragenital malignant mixed mesodermal tumor: A case report.

Introduction: Primary malignant mixed mesodermal tumor (MMMt, also called malignant mixed Mullerian tumor and designated in the WHO classification of female genital tract neoplasms as carcinosarcoma) is an infrequent tumor that develops usually in the uterus and more rarely in the ovary. Extragenital tumor, including primary peritoneal MMMt, is an extremely rare and aggressive neoplasm with only few case reported in the literature.

Presentation Of Case: We report a case of a 70-year's old female who presented with nausea and abdominal discomfort for 6 months.

Endovenous laser therapy combined with a surgical approach for primary varicose veins of the lower limbs.

In recent years, the minimal invasive alternatives to surgical ligation and stripping for the treatment of an incompetent greater saphenous vein have been explored. Endovenous laser therapy (EVLT) is one of these therapeutic options. We report on our initial experience with endovenus laser therapy combined with a surgical approach.

Totally implantable central venous access devices in adult oncological patients.

Totally implantable vascular access devices (ports) were introduced into clinical practice to replace external catheters in patients undergoing prolonged intravenous therapy. Today, they are also designed to provide repeated access to the vascular system for the delivery of blood products and are also used for the withdrawal of blood samples. As regards cancer patients, the availability of these continuous reliable intravenous catheterisation devices has provided an opportunity to deliver more complex, multi-drug regimens, in safety and with a good quality of life.

Pancreatic pseudocyst caused by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for right renal pelvic calculi.

A 39-year-old white man with a history of right renal pelvic stones treated 1 year before by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, but with no history of major surgery, alcoholism, pancreatitis, hyperparathyroidism or trauma, was admitted, suffering from an abdominal mass. Abdominal and pelvic computed tomography revealed an enlarged pancreatic head (9 cm in transverse diameter) with, inside it, a heterogeneous, cyst-like structure, measuring 7 cm in diameter. It was suspected that this lesion was a cystic neoplasm and the patient underwent a proximal pancreaticoduodenectomy and a cholecystectomy.