[The importance of the aponeurotic relaxing incision in the plastic repair of inguinal and femoral hernias according to the McVay method].

The AA. propose the utilization of the relaxing incision of the aponeurosis during the Hernioplasty according to McVay's procedure. The main advantage of such a method is the lower tension of the suture of the plasty, with several aspects, which take to a lower incidence of recurrences.

[Non-atherosclerotic and non-inflammatory juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy (personal observations on a case)].

On the ground of a personal observation of juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy, the Authors have considered, after a brief revision of the literature, the physiopathology and the pathologic anatomy about this pathology which, even if uncommon, must by anyhow taken into consideration among the possible causes of "claudicatio intermittens" in young patients. A right diagnosis can be made only during the surgical intervention, the indications of which are represented either by a clinic objectiveness consistent with a peripheral obstruction with description of chronic or openly acute arterial failure, or by an angiographic checking which shows a stop along the femoropopliteal axis. The prognosis is generally good, as the literature confirms, and particularly in the case observed by the Authors it was quite satisfactory after a follow up of four years.

[Apropos of a case of Palma's syndrome].

The Authors refer about a case of rare obstructive arteriopathy of the Hunterian superficial femoral artery, disease better known as Palma's Syndrome.

[Treatment of varices of the lower extremities during pregnancy].

The authors studied 500 pregnant women suffering from varicose pathology, they had the opportunity to observe in the years 1979, 1980, 1981. The range of age hit was between 18 and 46 years. A higher prevalence occurred in pluriparae (82.

[Surgical treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis].

A series of 38 cases of superficial thrombosis occurring during the period 1-12-1979 to 1-12-1981 was examined. The series included 10 cases of iatrogenic thrombophlebitis of the upper limbs, one case of Mondor's thrombophlebitis, and 27 cases of superficial thrombophlebitis of the lower limbs in subjects with essential varices of the legs. A particular predilection for women and for advanced age was noted, as well as particular frequency in the area of distribution of the Great versus and Small Saphenous Vein, and a sharp prevalence of segments below the knee as compared with the thigh.