Learning curve in the detection of ovarian and deep endometriosis by using Magnetic Resonance: comparison with surgical results.

Purpose: Determining if Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) accuracy in diagnosing endometriosis is related to radiologist's expertise.

Methods And Materials: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. This study is compliant to STARD method.

Ocular refraction: heritability and genome-wide search for eye morphometry traits in an isolated Sardinian population.

No genes influencing oculometric phenotypes have yet been identified, despite it being well known that eye morphometry is involved in refraction and that genetics may play an important role. We have therefore performed a heritability analysis and genome-wide search (GWS) of biometric ocular traits in an isolated Sardinian population, assessing the genetic contribution and identifying the associated genetic loci. A complete eye examination including refraction and ocular biometry measurements such as axial length (AL), anterior chamber depth (ACD) and corneal curvature (CC), was performed on 789 subjects.

[Surgical treatment of hydatid liver cysts: 20 more years of experience].

A series of 232 consecutive patients underwent surgery for hydatid liver disease (age range: 12-85 years) in our Department of General Surgery from July 1979 to December 2002. The study group comprised all the 326 cysts treated; the cysts were solitary in 181 patients and multiple in 51. One hundred and forty-one patients (60.

[GIST: surgical treatment of 34 cases].

In our Department of General Surgery 34 patients underwent surgery for GIST from 1983 to 2002. In stomach (21 cases) we performed: 7 local resections, 7 partial gastric resections, 5 total gastrectomies, 1 total gastrectomy + splenopancreatectomy, 1 diagnostic laparoscopy with biopsy. In small bowel (5 cases) we performed a typical intestinal resection, while in colon localization (4 cases) 2 anterior colorectal resections and 2 right partial colectomies.

[Therapeutic strategy in carcinoma of the exocrine pancreas].

A series of 311 consecutive patients undergone surgery for pancreatic carcinoma in the Department of General Surgery from July 1979 to March 2003. We performed 41 standard pancreaticoduodenal resections (13%: 30 DCP, 2 total pancreatectomies, 9 splenopancreatectomies), 235 by-passes (75.5%: 114 Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomies, 99 hepaticojejunostomies with GEA, 22 GEA), 35 explorations and biopsy (11.

The influence of diabetes mellitus on primary open angle glaucoma perimetry.

We have carried out a study into retinal sensitivity alterations in the course of primary open angle glaucoma to see if their appearance and evolution might be influenced by concomitant diabetes mellitus. The visual field examination (Perimeter Octopus 500 EZ, programme G1) indicated prevalent sensitivity defects in the superior hemifield, both in glaucoma only subjects and in those with diabetes as well. As to the inferior hemifield, a greater, statistically significant, retinal sensitivity defect was found in the inferior temporal quadrant of the left eye in the group of diabetics.