Publications by authors named "Valerio Ranieri"
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- This study compares two surgical methods, Hartmann's procedure (HP) and resection with primary anastomosis (RPA), for treating acute left-sided colonic emergencies among 1215 patients from 204 centers globally.
- Results showed that while HP was the more common treatment (57.3%), RPA was favored for younger patients with fewer health issues and those needing surgery sooner.
- The study concluded that although HP is still widely used, RPA might be the better option, emphasizing the importance of patient characteristics and surgeon experience in determining treatment choice.
Medullary carcinoma (MC) of the large intestine is a relatively new histological type of adenocarcinoma characterized by poor glandular differentiation and an intraepithelial lymphocytic infiltrate. MC can be associated to a defective mechanism for DNA mismatch repair, caused by the so-called microsatellite instability (MSI). We present the case of a 44 years old Caucasian woman, who referred to the Emergency Room with symptoms mimicking an acute appendicitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report two cases of acute small bowel obstruction, the first in an adult patient, and the second in a three-month-old baby due to a congenital fibrous band. The second case was retrospectively detected from a pool of at least 50 cases of secondary fibrous band obstructions over the period from 1970 to 2008. Surgery was performed early, and simple resection of this very rare malformative bundle (usually affecting very young people) was required.
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