Is COVID-19 All That Glitters?

Over the last three years, the Coronavirus-19 disease has been a global health emergency, playing a primary role in the international scientific community. Clinical activity and scientific research have concentrated their efforts on facing the pandemic, allowing the description of novel pathologies correlated to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), such as the Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Adults (MIS-C, MIS-A). Conversely, this shift of attention to COVID-19 disease and its complications could, in some cases, have delayed and underestimated the diagnosis of diseases not associated with SARS-CoV-2, including rare diseases.

Cervical radiculopathy as first presentation of CD3-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the cervico-thoracic junction.

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in rare cases can presents an unusual expression of CD3 T-cell specific antigen. We report the first case of a CD3-positive DLBCL of the cervico-thoracic junction presenting with persistent cervical radiculopathy.

Case Presentation: A 74-years-old male patient presented a severe and persistent right C8 radiculopathy associated with right-sided neck pain, progressive numbness and weakness of the right arm.

Distal pancreatectomy with en bloc resection of the celiac axis for pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Resection of celiac axis for gastric cancer was first performed by Appleby in 1953. Subsequently, Mayumi et al. and Kimura et al.

Multi-detector row CT scanner angiography in the evaluation of living kidney donors.

Renal vascular anomalies are frequent and are not usually problematic, especially when they have been identified and localised with preoperative imaging; computed tomography angiography is a fast and minimally invasive procedure that may afford accurate visualisation of arterial and venous anatomy. We report on our experience with the utilisation of multi-detector row angiography in the preoperative evaluation of living kidney donors. Nineteen living kidney donors underwent multidetector row scan angiography with 3D post-processing.

Could a high resectability rate improve the long-term survival of patients with proximal bile duct cancer?

Background And Objectives: This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate if high resectability rate could improve the long-term outcome of patients with proximal bile duct cancer.

Methods: Between 1985 and 2001, 50 patients (34 male and 16 female) with proximal bile duct cancer were treated. Thirty-six patients (72%) were considered suitable for surgery, while 14 underwent nonsurgical palliative procedures.

Kidney transplantation from cadaveric donors unsuitable for other centers and older than 60 years of age.

Introduction: The demand for kidney transplants and the improvement in recipient outcomes over the last years have stimulated surgeons to expand the criteria for usable donor organs, by accepting older patients to expand their donor pool. We herein report our experience with kidney transplants from donors aged older than 60 years, who have been declined by other transplantation centers.

Patients And Methods: Sixty kidney transplantations were performed with grafts procured from donors aged older than 60 years.

[Congenital hip dysplasia in Sicily].

The Authors have analyzed the results of the ultrasound exams of the hips made in the Department of Pediatric Radiology, of the Catania University between 1993-1996 on 2000 little patients aged from 0 to 7 months. The aim of the examination was to define the frequency of the congenital dysplasia of the hip among the population of South-East Sicily because in literature there are no sure data. After a keen analysis of these data one can affirm that the incidence of the congenital dysplasia of the hip among the population of South-East Sicily is of 2.

Corpus callosal atrophy following closed head injury: detection with magnetic resonance imaging.

To investigate evidence for diffuse white matter injury and hemispheric disconnection sequelae after severe closed head injury (CHI), this study evaluates the degree of posttraumatic atrophy of the corpus callosum. Corpus callosal atrophy was quantitatively determined using a digitizer to measure sagittal magnetic resonance images of 32 patients with moderate-to-severe CHI and those of 31 control subjects of similar age. In the CHI patients, measurements were significantly reduced for the areas of the anterior four-fifths, the posterior one-fifth, and the total corpus callosum.