Integrating self-referral for mammography into organised screening: results from an Italian experience.

Objective: To compare self-referred screenees with respondents to invitation for main performance indicators of mammography screening.

Setting: First round of an organised, population-based screening programme in six districts of northern Italy.

Methods: The screening test was a two-view mammography.

[Radiologic and clinical aspects of osteoarticular amyloidosis caused by dialysis].

Many long-term (greater than 60 months) hemodialysis patients develop a severe osteoarticular disease, called "dialysis arthropathy", which is characterized by the deposition in bone and synovia of a new type of amyloid made mainly of beta 2-microglobulin. In the present study, 31 patients (17 males, 14 females; age 54.1 +/- 13 years), undergoing chronic hemodialysis for 60-125 months, were examined for dialysis arthropathy by means of clinics and of radiological investigations (conventional radiography and computed tomography).

[Acquired cystic kidney disease among hemodialysis patients: echographic and clinical study].

Thirty-six of 56 (64%) patients on chronic hemodialysis for 1 to 194 months were found to have ACKD (at least 3 cysts per kidney) by means of ultrasonographic evaluation. The number, size and extent of cysts were positively and significantly correlated with the months on hemodialysis. There was also a significant positive correlation between grade of ACKD and Hb.

[Diagnostic imaging for the study of popliteal masses in dialyzed patients].

A new type of amyloidosis, secondary to the massive deposition of beta 2-microglobulin, has been identified which is peculiar to long-term (greater than or equal to 5 years) hemodialysis. Popliteal masses have recently been described as a possible manifestation of this type of amyloidosis. We report the results of a clinical-radiologic study of the popliteal region in 28 patients (14 males, 14 females; age 52.

[Osteo-articular amyloidosis caused by dialysis. Clinical and radiologic aspects].

Twenty-nine patients who had received chronic hemodialysis for more than 5 years provided the material for the present study. In 12 of them (41%) there were radiological findings of dialysis related amyloidosis, mainly destructive spondyloarthropathy of the cervical spine (n = 11) and geodes of the shoulder (n = 5). When compared with negative patients, these patients were significantly older (p less than 0.