The timing of surgery for resectable metachronous liver metastases from colorectal cancer: Better sooner than later? A retrospective analysis.

Background: The benefit of preoperative chemotherapy in patients with initially resectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer is still a matter of debate.

Aims: We aim to evaluate the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the outcome of patients with colorectal cancer metachronous liver metastases undergoing potentially curative liver resection.

Methods: One-hundred four patients were available for analysis.

Primary carcinoid tumour of the kidney. A case report and review of the literature.

Carcinoid tumours are known to occur frequently in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. A primary carcinoid tumour of the kidney is an extremely rare entity and only 40 cases have been reported in the literature. As a consequence, very little is known about its real histogenesis, and its prognosis and clinicopathological patterns are not precisely defined.

[Extraordinary role of self-expanding metal stent (SEMS) in the malignant colorectal obstruction: different care in two cases].

The colorectal cancer presents with bowel obstruction in 10%-30% of patients. Established treatment of this evolutive condition, until 15 years ago, was emergency surgery. Primary resection with or without ileostomy, staged resection, Hartmann's procedure, or definitive colostomy are the therapeutical options.

[Non-operative management of blunt abdominal injuries].

Over the past three decades, non-operative management has been shown to be an effective therapeutic option in hemodynamically stable patients. We retrospectively reviewed the last 7 years of our experience with the non-operative management of blunt abdominal traumas. From January 1998 to July 2005, 123 patients with blunt abdominal traumas and injuries to the spleen, liver and pancreas were admitted to our hospital.

[Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas. A report of 3 cases and a review of the literature].

Solid pseudopapillary tumours of the pancreas (SPTP) are a distinct clinico-pathological entity that differs from the other cystic pancreatic neoplasms in the young age of onset, the almost exclusive incidence in the female sex and the low degree of malignancy. SPTP is a rare neoplasm that has shown a progressive increase of incidence, passing from 0.17%-2.