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Bull Hist Med
March 2011
History Department, Open University.
In seventeenth-century Rome a popular financial scheme made it crucial to establish if pregnancy or childbirth had caused a woman's death. Courts sought medical advice, and this prompted physicians to reconsider the issues. Their disagreements provide historians with evidence from which to reassess received views of early modern doctors' involvement with birthing bodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Ital Chir
July 2002
Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale, d'Urgenza e dei Trapianti d'Organo, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
Background: Colon diverticular disease represents an affection with high prevalence in the western countries. It appears particularly insidious in the elderly population for the presence of concomitant illnesses.
Clinical Case: A patient (> 80 years old) is submitted to surgical intervention in emergency sec.
Minerva Chir
February 2001
Dipartimento di Area Critica Medico Chirurgica, Cattedra di Patologia Chirurgica 1, Università degli Studi, Florence, Italy.
The authors report the case of a female patient suffering from colic neoplasm and a vast peristomal laparocele, the long-term outcome of a rectal amputation that the patient underwent at a young age. After colic resection, a vast area of surgical mesh in dacron was modelled and positioned in a retromuscular scat, thus allowing the hernia pathology to be resolved relatively simply, owing to its particular location-in correspondence with a preternatural anus-until not long ago this would have represented an absolute contraindication to the use of prosthetic materials. A precise surgical approach, marked by a scrupulous respect for aseptic conditions, is essential in these circumstances owing to the persistent risk of septic complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMinerva Chir
March 1999
Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale SS. Annunziata, USL 17, Regione Piemonte, Savigliano, Cuneo.
Background: 46 cases of perforated colonic neoplasm (4.6% of the entire series): 11 (24%) of the right colon, 35 (76%) of the left colon; 19 males (41%) and 27 females (59%); mean age 67 years old, range 32-92 years. pTNM: stage II, 1 case (2%); stage III: 27 cases (59%); stage IV, 18 cases (39%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMinerva Chir
May 1999
Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, USL n. 17, Regione Piemonte, Ospedale SS. Annunziata, Savigliano, Cuneo.
Background And Aim: 133 cases of occluded colorectal neoplasms (14% of the entire series): 30 (23%) of the right colon, 103 (77%) of the left colon-rectum; 69 males (52%) and 64 females (48%); mean age 67.5 years old, range 33-91 years. pTNM: stage II, 28 cases (21%); stage III: 43 cases (32%); stage IV, 62 cases (47%).
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