[The diagnostic procedure in deep venous thrombosis. The authors' experience].

Diagnostic flow chart of 101 patients admitted with suspected TVP between 1987 and 1991 is discussed. In all of them Doppler cw and radionuclide venography with pulmonary scanning with albumin Tc 99 were performed. Since the 90's a triplex scanner was employed, usually after Doppler cw examination.

[Surgery of the carotid: the morphology of plaque and the clinical correlations].

A consecutive series of 256 patients operated on of carotid endarterectomy for cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease from January 1987 through December 1990 is presented. The following parameters were considered: clinical presentation, morphology of the carotid atherosclerotic plaque and topographic distribution of other concomitant atherosclerotic lesions of epiaortic arteries. 422 carotid lesions and 154 lesions of other epiaortic vessels were investigated by means of echo and color flow imaging, digital subtraction angiography and macroscopic observation of the specimen: 143 plaques proved grossly ulcerated.

[Femoral non-infected anastomotic pseudoaneurysm. Clinical contribution].

The femoral region is the most common site of development of anastomotic pseudoaneurysms that represent a relatively frequent complication of reconstructive vascular surgery. Clinical examination alone generally is sufficient to diagnose these lesions because they usually appear as a pulsatile inguinal mass not accompanied by pain. Echography and angiodynography permit a better evaluation of size and blood flow.

[The clinical picture and surgery of pheochromocytomas. Our experience over 25 years].

The pheochromocytoma syndrome, caused by an abnormal secretion of catecholamines, is a rare pathology responsible for 0.1-2% cases of hypertension in the overall population considered. Although in the past we deemed the pheochromocytoma could cause prevalently the typical syndrome characterized by paroxysmal hypertensive crises, now we think that the usual clinical presentation is a continue or subcontinue hypertensive state (65%).

[Association of pheochromocytoma and renovascular hypertension].

The case of a 47-year-old woman affected with right adrenal pheochromocytoma and right renal artery stenosis is presented. The concurrence of these two diseases is rarely reported in the literature, as shown by the review presented. Nevertheless, this association carries some problems as far as diagnosis is concerned, because missing renal artery lesion can lead to the maintenance of the hypertensive disease after surgical excision of the adrenal pheochromocytoma.