[Lymphatic cyst of the mesentery].

Lymphatic cyst of the mesentery is a rare lesion; one case per 100,000 hospital admissions is reported. A case of lymphatic cyst in a sixty-one-year-old woman is presented. The symptoms are extremely variable, not characteristic and correlated to the location and size of the cyst.

[Proposal for the use of preoperative pneumoperitoneum in the treatment of large bilateral inguinal-scrotal hernias].

The authors bring again their therapeutic behavior effected with the technique of the pneumoperitoneum preoperative for the resolution or a case of bilateral inguinal hernia. Having used a catheter of Tenckoff with external link to Y, in use beside the nephrologist, for peritoneal dialysis and has stayed positioned for percutaneous way into the peritoneal cavity. Has stayed insufflated increasing quantity of air in abdomen from 100 cc after the first day of treatment, to 1500 cc after the 15th day, to allow a sufficient increase of the ability or the peritoneal cavity and allow the reduction of the intestinal loops in abdomen.

[An unusual feature of Meckel's diverticulum in association with phlegmonous appendicitis and mesenteric cyst. A clinical case].

A particular case of Meckel's diverticulum, with phlegmonous appendicitis and mesenteric cyst associated, is presented. The Authors discuss the etiophatology, explaining the anatomic and clinical found situation.

[Temporary defunctionalizing colostomy, a non-indispensable corollary in the Dixon anterior resection of the rectum for treatment of recto-sigmoid carcinoma].

The frequency and sites of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and rectum are discussed. The complications associated with Dixon's anterior resection of the rectum are described, with particular reference to factors affecting cicatrisation of the colic anastomoses, followed by dehiscences and their degree of seriousness. A personal serier for the years 1969 to 1975 is presented and the advantages and disadvantages of derivative colostomy are explained.