[Adjuvant radio-chemotherapy in cancer of the rectum treated with radical surgery and with high risk of recurrence. Preliminary results of a prospective study].

Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION MATERIAL AND METHODS: From January, 1990, to December, 1995, 138 consecutive patients with radically resected stage II and III rectal and rectosigmoid cancers were treated with adjuvant radiochemotherapy. Eighty-one patients with 24 months' follow-up were assessable. Low anterior resection (LAR) was performed in 64 (79%) patients and abdominoperineal resection (APR) in 17 (21%).

[Ruggero Oddi and the discovery of the common bile duct sphincter].

The author gives some information about life in Perugia in the years 1883-87, when Ruggero Oddi was a medical student at the "Libera Università" of Perugia. Moreover the author gives notes about the Hospital and the University in those years with special reference to the situation of the Department of Physiology where the discovery of the sphincter of the common bile duct took place. Then, the author reports the most peculiar facts of Ruggero Oddi's life in a chronological way and finally, he deals with the history of Oddi's discovery of the sphincter of the common bile duct, when he was a student in the fourth year at the "Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia" in Perugia.

[Pre- and postoperative radiotherapy of operable carcinoma of the rectum].

This was a non-randomized prospective study on the "sandwich" radiosurgical treatment of resectable rectal and rectosigmoid carcinomas. From December 1984 to December 1989, 100 patients were treated 86 of them are now evaluable. Mean follow-up was 38 months (range: 9-69).