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G Meo

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PubMed2000

Surgery and community participation in a community-based programme in war situations.

The paper presents the results and the experience gained from three 'mass surgical interventions' conducted in the Alpha Civil Hospital, Billing in south Sudan in the period between October 1996 and November 1997. The results showed that surgical services can be provided safely and economically even under most difficult conditions provided professional experience plus community commitment and participation are there. Such interventions lead to the development of strong community self-reliance and willingness which are fundamental if the programme is to be sustained.

Community Health Services↗
PubMed1992

[Carcinomas of the right colon. A review of 60 consecutive cases].

Sixty consecutive cases of tumor of the right colon operated upon between 1981 and 1991 are reviewed. Age and sex distribution, clinical findings, preoperative diagnostics and system used staging, TNM classification, surgical management, operative mortality, follow up and survival were analyzed. Results are discussed and compared with published data. In the second of the two 5-year period considered an increased incidence of right-sided carcinoma compared with tumors of the left colon and rectum was observed. According to the TNM classification, more than 50% of patients were in stage III. Operative mortality was 5%. The overall 5-year survival rate was 58%, while the survival rate of patients treated with radical intent was 70%.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Treatment of Pott's paraplegia in a rural African hospital.

Experience in treating Pott's Paraplegia in a rural general hospital in Northern Kenya is reported. Five TB patients with severe neurological involvement of the spine were treated by orthopaedic reduction and antituberculous drugs. All were able to walk three months later.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

[Acute cholecystitis. Early diagnostic study using cholescintigraphy with Tc99m-IDA].

34 patients admitted for suspected acute cholecystitis were evaluated using 99mTc IDA cholescintigraphy. The results of these studies are reviewed and compared with other diagnostic tests and the subsequent clinical diagnosis. Cholescintigraphy proved to be a safe, simple, highly accurate and sensitive technique. Therefore, 99mTc-IDA cholescintigraphy is proposed as the initial procedure of choice in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute cholecystitis.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1980

[Penetrating abdominal wounds].

37 cases of penetrating abdominal wounds, 10 stab wounds and 27 gunshot wounds, have been examined. They are part of a total of 1856 emergency surgery operations carried out consecutively over a period of 30 months; they therefore represent 2%. The series consisted of 31 men and 6 women; average age was 31. The organs most frequently damaged were the liver, the small intestine and mesentery, the large intestine and mesocolon. Reoperation proved necessary in 7 gunshot wounds, the incidence being much higher than in all other emergency operations carried out. Mortality rate was very high (21.62%): one case of the stab wounds and seven of the gunshot wounds. In spite of the considerable overall seriousness 3 cases, 1 stab and 2 gunshot wounds, did not present visceral lesions. This leads us to agree with numerous authors who maintain that a penetrating abdominal wound is not an absolute indication for surgery but requires, like blunt abdominal injuries, individual surgical evaluation, and in some cases conservative management.

Abdominal Injuries↗
PubMed1978

[Epidemiological study of emergency surgical pathology in the first aid department of a large hospital].

During a two-year period, major operations were performed on 874 males and 649 females at the first-aid section of a major hospital. Acute appendicitis was the most common intraoperative diagnosis (45.63%), followed by intestinal obstruction (21%), gastroduodenal perforation (6.83%), abdominal injury (5.98%), angiosurgical emergency situations (5.19%, including amputation for gangrene), gynaecological emergency situations (3.74%), acute cholecystitis (3.35%), haematemesis (1.44%), acute pancreatitis (1.31%), and various other diseases. Further surgery as a result of complications was required in 2.63%. Mortality (1 year only) was 7.42%. The results achieved and the tactical criteria employed are discussed.

Abdominal Injuries↗
PubMed1978

[Emergency surgery of tumors of the small intestine].

Ten cases of serious complications requiring emergency surgery in patients with tumours of the small intestine are presented: 3 cases of peritonitis due to perforation of a fibroleiomyoma, a jejunal adenocarcinoma, and an ileal lymphosarcoma; 3 invaginations (1 ileocolic due to an ileal polyp, and 2 ileoileal due to lymphoma and polypoid metastasis of melanoma; 3 stenosis (ileal owing to metastasis of melanoma, and duodenal and of the duodenojejunal flexure due to histologically unascertained neoplasias); 1 massive enterorrhagia from ileal anaplastic carcinoma. The frequency of such pictures is not negligible when assessed in terms of emergency surgical pathology and compared with other emergency situations arising in patients with tumours. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult even from the clinical history. Tumours of the small intestine appear to give rise to such complications in their initial stages.

Adenocarcinoma↗