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C Andreoli

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PubMed1986

Psychological profile of women with chronic pelvic pain.

Using the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) psychological distress was measured in 30 women who underwent laparoscopy for chronic pelvic pain and in 30 matched controls. Both organic pelvic pain patients (OPPs) and idiopathic pelvic pain patients (IPPs) reported higher scores for somatisation than controls. IPPs scored higher than OPPs and controls on the Zung SDS, while no difference emerged in this scale between OPPs and controls. No correlations were found between age or duration of symptoms and somatisation and depression scores. On the basis of the above reported results the authors suggest that some forms of idiopathic chronic pelvic pain might represent an expression of a depressive disorder.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

Psychosocial stress and obstetrical complications. The need for a comprehensive model.

The relationship between life events, anxiety, social support, coping style and obstetrical complications was studied in a series of 319 pregnant women; they were interviewed during the sixth month of pregnancy. To allow a prospective study, only obstetrical complications occurring after the interview were considered. 142 of the women proved to be complicated and the remaining 177 uncomplicated. Taken singly, none of the psychosocial variables considered significantly differentiated the two groups of women. However, when the combined effect of some psychosocial variables is considered, numerous significant interactions emerge. The variables which interact most frequently with each other and with the life events variables are: specific anxiety, coping style and general anxiety.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1984

Laser phototherapy following HpD administration in superficial neoplastic lesions.

We report our preliminary clinical experience with hematoporphyrin derivative (HpD) injection and argon or dye laser irradiation for the treatment of 61 surface neoplastic lesions in 7 patients. Forty-three sites were multiple basal cell carcinoma in 5 patients, and the remaining 18 were cutaneous and subcutaneous recurrent breast carcinoma after mastectomy in the thoracic wall. The patients were selected on the basis of the lack of indication for conventional therapeutic modalities. The selection of irradiation procedures and laser source was based on the thickness of the lesion and extension of the disease. The photochemical reaction between HpD injected i.v. at a dose of 3 mg/kg body weight and the laser beam at a dose of 60 to 120 J/cm2 resulted in 75% favorable responses at the treated sites. Optimal therapeutic effects appeared to be critically dependent on total light dose and tumor infiltration patterns. The phototherapeutic technique proved to be effective in selected cases of neoplastic lesions, especially when conventional treatment modalities were poorly indicated or contraindicated.

Aged↗
PubMed1983

Lack of efficacy of xeroradiography to preoperatively detect axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer.

Xeroradiography of the axilla was performed in 132 patients with operable breast cancer to investigate the status of the axillary lymph nodes. Pathologic findings were correlated with the results of clinical examination and xeroradiographic findings. Xeroradiography does not appear to have improved our ability to identify axillary lymph node metastases in patients with breast cancer.

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PubMed1983

[Xeroradiography of axillary lymph nodes in patients with tumors of the breast].

The use of axillary xeroradiography for the detection of lymph node metastases from breast cancer was evaluated on 125 consecutive patients submitted to surgery and to axillary dissection. The clinical and xeroradiographic aspect of lymph nodes was related to their histological diagnosis. Axillary xeroradiography was useful in predicting the metastatic involvement of lymph nodes in a fair good percent of cases, but it gave sometimes unpredictable results due to the superimposition of superficial soft tissues and to the lack of reliable diagnostic criteria. For these reasons, axillary xeroradiography cannot be used as a primary procedure before surgery is performed, and the xeroradiographic diagnosis cannot be assumed as the unique prognostic factor in predicting the metastatic spread of the tumour. This technique may prove useful, however, for the study of the axilla in obese patients and for the evaluation of the size and of the relationships of an axillary mass.

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PubMed1982

Lymphnodal metastases from unknown primary tumors.

Prognosis and adequate therapy of lymphnodal metastases from unknown tumors are still uncertain. At the Milan Cancer Institute 71 patients with neoplastic adenopathies of unknown origin were hospitalized between 1965 and 1979. Men were 45 and women 26 with a M/F ratio of 1.7: 1. Most of patients were aged 51-70 years. Laterocervical adenopathies were the more frequent, followed by supraclavicular, axillary, inguinal, submandibular and retroperitoneal ones. In 11 cases the primary tumor was subsequently found (3 cases in tongue, 3 in rhinopharynx. 2 in lung. 2 in breast and 1 in thyroid). Of the remaining 60 cases, only histologic diagnosis of the metastasis was available and the primary tumor has never been found. Squamous cell carcinoma was the most frequent histologic type, followed by adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma and malignant melanoma. No significant relationship between histologic types and lymphnodal sites could be demonstrated. In different cases treated with all possible combined therapies (surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy), no correlation between survival and therapy was possible. 35 patients (58.3%) were dead 18 months after diagnosis. No significant correlation between survival and histology was either shown. The natural history of these tumors remains unclear and any specific therapy cannot be proposed to be scheduled in such cases.

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PubMed1975

[Hypnosis in labor].

The aetiology of labour pains remains obscure and it is not certain that improper conditioning is the cause. Fear of pain is innate, while other fears are acquired. The employment of hypnosis during labour is discussed and it is pointed out that the paucity of qualified hypnologists makes its systematic use problematical.

Adult↗