Role of peritoneal lavage in adhesion formation and survival rate in rats: an experimental study.

Following laparotomy, almost 95% of patients develop adhesions. To prevent adhesion formation, peritoneal lavage has been investigated and many different lavage solutions have been proposed. In this study, different peritoneal lavage solutions were evaluated, testing their ability to prevent adhesion formation.

Intrathoracoscopic localization techniques. Review of literature.

Background: Several techniques for localizing pulmonary nodules have been described, but the advantages and disadvantages of each method remain unclear. We reviewed ultrasound, endofinger, finger palpation and wait and watch, radioguided, vital dye, fluoroscopic, agar marking, and needle wire methods for localizing pulmonary nodules.

Methods: Original, peer-reviewed, and full-length articles in English were searched with PubMed and ISI Web of Sciences.

Impact of laparoscopy and ultrasonography in gastrointestinal malignancies.

Background/aims: An adequate preoperative disease staging is highly required before surgical treatment, even in gastrointestinal malignancies. Our study wants to give a contribution in order to define echolaparoscopy weight in gastrointestinal tumors and its impact in surgical therapy.

Methodology: 33 patients were affected by pancreas, 22 by stomach, 16 by extrahepatic biliary tract and 18 by liver cancers; every patient was considered worthy of radical or palliative surgery according to preoperative staging (thorax-abdominal CT and percutaneous ultrasonography).

Thoracoscopic localization techniques for patients with solitary pulmonary nodule and history of malignancy.

Background: Our aim was to evaluate the best intrathoracoscopic localization technique in patients with single pulmonary nodule and a history of malignancy.

Methods: We divided 50 patients in two groups, well matched for diameter and depth of the pulmonary lesion. In 25 patients we performed intrathoracoscopic ultrasound to locate the pulmonary nodule (group A), whereas in the other 25 patients the radio-guided technique was adopted (group B).

Thoracoscopic localization techniques for patients with a single pulmonary nodule and positive oncological anamnesis: a prospective study.

Introduction: Our aim was to evaluate the best intrathoracoscopic localization technique in patients with a single pulmonary nodule and a history of malignancy.

Method: We divided 30 patients into two groups, well matched for diameter and depth of the pulmonary lesion. In 15 patients (group A) we performed intrathoracoscopic ultrasound (US) to locate the pulmonary nodule, while in the other 15 patients (group B) intrathoracoscopic radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) was used.

Single pulmonary nodules: localization with intrathoracoscopic ultrasound -- a prospective study.

This prospective study, based on 13 patients with single pulmonary nodules of width between 10 and 30 mm, was performed to verify the utility of intrathoracoscopic ultrasound to localize the single pulmonary nodule. In all 13 cases the ultrasound examination was able to localize the position of nodules, but the homogeneous hypoechoic pattern of nodules observed in ten of 13 cases did not prove whether the lesion was benign or malign. In conclusion, we can confirm that intrathoracoscopic ultrasound examination is a safe, risk-free and less expensive method of localizing the single pulmonary nodules.

Significance of a single pulmonary nodule in patients with previous history of malignancy.

Objectives: To determine the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up in patients with a solitary lung nodule and a previous primary extrapulmonary neoplasm.

Methods: The authors evaluated the charts of 45 patients with an extrapulmonary malignant neoplasm and a solitary pulmonary nodule. The histologic characteristics of the nodule were correlated with those of the extrapulmonary neoplasm.

Primary lung epithelioid hemangio-endothelioma with multiple bilateral metachronous localizations: case report and review.

The authors report a case of primary epithelioid (EH) in a 73-year-old female.

[Cutaneous mechanical staplers. Our experience].

This paper reports the results of a trial, comparing the use of disposable skin staplers with conventional nylon or silk sutures in skin closure. This study began in 1986; 7274 patients undergoing elective and emergency operations were controlled during the postoperative period, 3 and 6 months after surgery. It was shown that skin clips instead of sutures decrease the operative time, produce wound healing with a good cosmetic results, and above all a significant lowering of the wound infection rate.

[Experimental study of postoperative lavage: standardization of the method].

Postoperative infections are an outstanding problem in a surgical department. We have been studying them from a clinical and experimental point of view has a long time. In this study we present a method standardisation of postoperative peritoneal lavage as prevention of surgical infections.

[Emergency laparoscopic surgery].

The acute abdomen continues to be a large part of the general surgeon's workload. The continuing advances in laparoscopic surgery have already permitted many emergency procedures to be performed by this route. Since 1993 the Authors perform an explorative laparoscopy in patients with acute abdomen.

[Treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax with video-assisted mini-invasive thoracic surgery. First long-term results].

The spontaneous pneumothorax (pnx. s.) is a type of pathology with a high per cent of relapse so its aetiological treatment can't be done only with a pleural drainage.