[Jejunal diverticulosis. Presentation of a clinical case].

Jejunal diverticulosis is a rare and often asymptomatic disease, generally presenting as an occasional finding during laparotomy for other diseases. There are no established criteria for the treatment of such diverticula. Due to the possible onset of acute complications, surgical management must be considered.

[Angiodysplasia of the right colon].

Ascending colon angiodysplasia is a frequent cause of colorrhagia or chronic blood loss in old patients, but also possible under the age of 55. Angiodysplasia diagnosis is often underestimated. For a long time colorrhagia or lower intestinal bleeding were generally diagnosed like diverticular bleeding.

[Laparocele in the aged].

Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients. The infections of the surgical incision are very important in the pathogenesis of these diseases. In order to reduce the incidence of incisional hernias the systematic use of perioperative antibiotic therapy is desirable in every operation of abdominal surgery.