Stable fixation of fractures of the forearm in adults.

The results are presented of 148 fractures of the radius and ulna in 89 patients. All were treated by AO compression plating. The results were assessed at an average of 4.

[Ticlopidine and amaurosis fugax: results of treatment in a case with very frequent and typical attacks].

In a 59 years old patient suffering from a non stenotic atheroma of the internal right carotid artery, 12 attacks of "amaurosis fugax" (a.m.) affecting the right eye occurred over a period of 36 days.

Absorption kinetics for leucine, cycloleucine and alpha-aminoisobutyric acid by rat small intestine in vivo.

The intestinal absorption kinetics of three neutral amino acids, leucine, cycloleucine and alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, has been studied in rat jejunum in vivo, with luminal perfusion during successive periods, by measuring the passive component and the active transport. The mass-transfer coefficients of the passive process, are similar for the three amino acids and increase with the perfusion rate. The transport component, obtained from the difference between total absorption and passive diffusion, shows saturation kinetics and also increases with the perfusion rate.

Kinetics of the mediated transport and the passive net flux of phenylalanine across the rat small intestine in vivo.

The kinetics of L-phenylalanine absorption by rat jejunum, in vivo, has been studied with luminal perfusion (0.68 ml/min) during successive periods at different substrate concentrations. The non-saturable passive component, measured by inhibiting the active transport with 60 mM methionine, was a linear function of the substrate concentration with an apparent mass-transfer coefficient of 1.

Two lines of Walker carcinoma 256: their peculiarities and different interactions with the host.

Two sublines of Walker 256 carcinoma have been characterized for their ability to metastasize and to induce cachexia. The invasive, metastasizing line A induced terminal anorexia in rats with a mean survival time of 27 +/- 1.5 days.

[Prevention and therapy of delirium tremens with tiapride].

One hundred chronic alcoholics, who were hospitalized in our ward for neurological disorders directly or indirectly due to a prolonged and continual consumption of alcohol, have been treated with tiapride in doses varying from 600 up to 1200 mg/die. The drug was administered either per os or by injection. 50 of these patients were given, at the same time, graded doses of alcohol per os.

[Hematocrit value and hemoglobin concentration as possible risk factors in non-embolic acute cerebral infarcts].

The hematocrit and the concentration of hemoglobin have been studied in 197 patients (125 men and 72 women) suffering from acute cerebral infarction not due to embolism. The results have been analysed statistically and compared to those of a control group formed by 123 neurologic patients (68 men and 55 women) chosen at random, belonging to the same age range and with no cerebrovascular disease. The hematocrit was significantly higher in the patients who had a cerebral stroke of a non-embolic origin, both males and females, than in the control group, although it was within normal limits.

[Prevention and therapy of delirium tremens with tiapride and chlordesmethyldiazepam].

Forty alcohol abusers (with a history of long-time alcohol addiction and mean daily use over 360 grams of alcohol) were treated with tiapride or chlordesmethyldiazepam when stopped their overdrinking. The aim of such pharmacological treatment was both a valuation of effectiveness towards ten target-symptoms and the attempt to avoid the development of a withdrawal syndrome-or, at least, to shorten its course. Chlordesmethyldiazepam resulted to be on the whole more effective than tiapride in dominating all most dramatic symptoms of Delirium Tremens and in avoiding--in a significantly higher number of patients--the onset of a DT syndrome in all its typical features.

Examination of the cervix with the naked eye using acetic acid test.

Examination of the cervix was carried out on 2,400 patients, by use of acetic acid test with the naked eye and the colposcope. The physiologic transformation zone was clearly identified both with the naked eye and the colposcope in 1,568 of 1,594 (99%) cases. Colposcopic examination was unsatisfactory in 108 of the 264 (41%) patients in whom the cervix was completely covered by normal squamous epithelium.

A case of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease mimicking Friedreich's ataxia: is there any association between friedreich's ataxia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease?

The authors report a case of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease that mimicked Friedreich's ataxia and featured impaired tendon reflexes in the limbs, incoordination mimicking cerebellar disease in the extremities, extensor plantar responses on both sides, bilateral foot deformity, imparied position sense in the toes, absent vibratory sense in the distal parts of the legs and minimal distal weakness with wasting. Motor conduction velocity in the upper limbs was substantially reduced. Other cases similar in nature reported in the literature resemble spino-cerebellar degeneration in general, and Friedreich's ataxia, in particular.

[Amaurosis fugax].

A follow up study has been performed in thirteen patients suffering from (amaurosis fugax) (A.F.).

[Splenic artery aneurysm. Considerations on 2 cases].

Two cases of splenic artery aneurysm, their etiopathogenesis, complications and surgical treatment are presented. When serious technical problems are present the necessity of distal pancreatectomy, is underlined. Postoperative course is normally satisfactory.

Results of rigid fixation in 54 supracondylar fractures of the femur.

We present the results of the internal fixation in 48 supracondylar fractures of the femur with a follow-up of 1 to 10 years. These fractures have been classified according to the criteria proposed by the AO international. The clinical results were excellent to good in 70.

Results of manipulative treatment of congenital club foot. Review of seventy-six cases after more than six years.

The authors draw the following conclusions from a long-term review (six to twenty-eight years) of seventy-six cases of congenital club foot, treated by the "classical" method of moulding therapy, sometimes in association with elongation of the Achilles tendon: --There was a high percentage of poor and moderate results (32.7 per cent), though this is lower than the average values reported by other authors (fifty to sixty per cent); --Elongation of the Achilles tendon (performed late, between the ninth and fourteenth month of life) still significantly reduced the percentage of unsatisfactory results (twenty-four per cent in the cases operated on); --Residual deformities between fairly well-marked limits were well tolerated. --The "classic" moulding therapy should and can be modified in the interests of improving our results, (earlier or more radical surgery where indicated) but does not deserve to be abandoned completely.

[Treatment of thyroid neoplasms and proposed therapeutic plan].

Thirty-seven patients with thyroid cancer were treated at 1a Clinica Chirurgica of Parma between 1962 and 1970. Fourty-five per cent of tumors were papillary, 24 per cent follicular, 2 per cent medullary, 9 per cent anaplastic. Surgery combined with ormonal therapy formed the commonest treatment.

[Clinical and therapeutic aspects of duodenal diverticula].

The Authors present 33 cases of duodenal diverticula, 12 of which underwent surgical therapy. They analyse the clinical and therapeutic problems entailed in this surgica entity with particular reference to the frequency and gravity of emorrhagis complication. Concerning the surgical approach of ampullar and iuxta ampullar diverticula, Authors experience seems to advise indirect operations.