Advantages of Damage Control Strategy With Abdominal Negative Pressure and Instillation in Patients With Diffuse Peritonitis From Perforated Diverticular Disease.

. To evaluate the results of Damage Control Strategy (DCS) in the treatment of generalized peritonitis from perforated diverticular disease in patients with preoperative severe systemic diseases. .

Negative pressure therapy alone or with irrigation in the management of severe peritonitis.

Background: Ogilvie was the first to publish on open abdomen (OA) for the treatment of the damages caused by penetrating abdominal wounds in war events. Research improved those devices that allow a controlled, homogeneous and continuous extraction of contaminated fluids from all abdominal recesses, which are nowadays the base of the "Open Abdomen" technique.

Materials And Methods: From August 2012 to February 2016 at the Department of Emergency Surgery of Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, 40 patients affected by Severe Peritonitis have been treated with OA technique.

Primary anastomosis in emergency surgery of left colon cancer.

Introduction: Colorectal cancers are second leading cause of death in Western countries. There are about 1500 deaths per year in Italy due to colorectal cancer in both sex 1.

Materials And Methods: 224 patients, 127 women (56.

[Mesenteric Castleman's disease and inflammatory fibroid polyp of the stomach: a case report and review of the literature].

Castleman's disease is a very rare disease that causes many problems both in diagnosis and therapy. It is often associated with other diseases and can develop in any part of the body. Castleman's disease can be classified as uni-centric or multicentric based on clinical and radiological findings, as hyaline-vascular or plasma-cell based on the histological aspect, and as HIV-related or non-HIV-related, based on the HIV status of the patient.

[Mainly abdominal "complex" polytrauma. Considerations on surgical strategy and clinical case report].

The Authors want to present un uncommon case of polytrauma managed with surgical treatment at the Trauma Center of the A. Cardarelli Hospital in Naples. Chest, abdomen, pelvis, and left lower limb have been severely injured.

[Anterior jugular vein cavernoma in a forthcoming rupture stage: a case report].

The Authors present a very rare case of left anterior jugular vein cavernoma anterior jugular vein cavernoma in an over-seventy-year-old woman. The patient was visited already in a complicated status occurring as an increasing lateral neck mass. The case is so interesting for several reasons: for the peculiar lesion that belongs, in fact, to the uncommon group of the cavernous hemangiomas; for the exceptional localization on the anterior jugular vein; for the old age of the patient; last, but not least, for the unusual presentation of the forthcoming rupture.