Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A Venegoni.
The authors describe a case of splenic cyst recently observed. After remembering the nomenclature and pathogenetic hypothesis, they consider clinical patterns and emphasize pathological findings, diagnostic aids, especially noninvasive imaging. Authors discuss why the cyst was probably hydatid one, although histologic examination did not show scolices, and believe that the treatment of choice is splenectomy.
The Authors report 4 cases of Ogilvie's syndrome come to their observation during the last 5 years by the clinical surgery II of the I.R.C.C.S. Polyclinic "San Matteo" of Pavia. Remembering the infrequency of the affection and the controversial etiopathogenesis theories, the Authors study the clinical picture and the diagnostic problems, pointing out how some researches, especially radiological and endoscopical, permit to obtain a therapeutic solution of the syndrome. They underline the colonic perforation risk, certainly overestimated, and they show the therapeutic, medical or surgical, orientations, according to the evolution of the illness, the anatomic situations and the general conditions of the patient.