[Video-thoracoscopic sympathectomy in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and palmar hyperhidrosis].

Background And Aim: Raynaud's syndrome is a clinical entity characterised by episodic vascular spasm, digital ischemia in response to cold or emotional stimuli and hyperhidrosis. Many patients suffering from Raynaud's syndrome are successfully treated using medical therapy alone. Those patients who do not respond to medical treatment undergo surgery but the indications continue to be a source of controversy.

[Medullar breast cancer, occult papillary carcinoma, pulmonary metastases: a case report].

The authors have carried out their study on a woman who previously underwent QU.A.R.

[The role of surgery in the management of diffuse (N3) lung cancer].

The aim of the paper is to give a contribution to the understanding of the role of surgery in patients with N3 lung cancer. The A. describe their results on 32 patients with N3 lung cancer operated on mediastinectomy; histological examination of the specimens showed 27 squamous cell carcinomas and 5 adenocarcinomas.