Surgical site infections in an Italian surgical ward: a prospective study.

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) remains a major cause of morbidity and death. This study analyzed the results of surveillance to evaluate the incidence, risk factors, and characteristics of SSI in patients who underwent an operation in a typical Italian surgical ward.

Methods: A group of 1,281 patients operated on from August 2005 to December 2007 underwent prospective and direct observation of incisions by a surgeon according to the U.

[Starch granulomatous peritonitis. Description of a clinical case].

The starch peritonitis is a rare disease which is present in the patients recently submitted to a laparotomy. The ethology is an allergic reaction to the surgical glove starch. The symptoms are a continuous temperature, a leucocytosis and a eosinophilia.

[The role of echo-guided percutaneous cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis].

Personal experience in the treatment of acute cholecystitis with percutaneous cholecystostomy in high risk patients and in elderly patients is reported. Between January 1989 and November 1990, 28 patients affected by acute cholecystitis were treated with percutaneous cholecystostomy at Emergency Surgery Department, Verona University Hospital. The patients treated included 13 men and 15 women; 8 of them were under 70 years old, 5 between 70th and 75th and the remaining patients over 75 years old.

[The choice of the surgical intervention in nonvaricose hemorrhages of the digestive tract].

In the last years, the emergency endoscopic treatment has greatly reduced the number of non-variceal gastro-duodenal haemorrhages treated by surgery. The authors review the literature from 1980 to 1990 in the light of personal clinical experience and formulate a surgical protocol of the cases not healed by medical or endoscopic therapy.

[A comparison between manual and mechanical anastomoses in digestive organ surgery].

The authors review the literature from 1980 to 1990 about some kinds of digestive anastomosis: esophagogastric and esophagocolic anastomosis at neck, esophagogastric intrathoracic anastomosis, esophagojejunal anastomosis, colorectal anastomosis. They compare the results of manual versus mechanical procedure in the light of recent personal clinical experience.

[The therapy of symptomatic and/or complicated dysontogenetic liver cysts].

Congenital hepatic cysts are a frequent disease, symptomatic in the 16-18% of the cases. The authors report a review of the literature of the last 20 years about 135 treated surgically patients with symptomatic and/or complicated hepatic cysts. They analyse the different models of treatment both surgical and conservative, referring in special way about the alcoholization of the cysts.