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G Paini

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PubMed1984

[Treatment of large tumors of the cerebellopontile angle using a combined transtentorial and translabyrinthine approach to the middle cranial fossa].

The Authors have reported on 7 patients with large tumors (larger than 4 cm) of the cerebello-pontine angle operated-on utilizing a subtemporal-transtentorial-translabyrinthine-trans-occipital approach. The technique, the results and complications of this approach to the cerebello-pontine angle are discussed. The advantages are the delineation of the cranial nerves and of the ventrolateral brainstem with its blood supply. This approach has been associated with a low morbidity and no operative mortality in 5 cases of acoustic nerve tumor and 2 meningiomas.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

[Prevention of infection in thyroid surgery].

The Authors remark the clear infections are rare in thyroid surgery, whereas rather frequent are the light phlogistic forms, appearing through thermal movement, slight oedema and reddening of the cutaneous wound, drainage emergency point and upper cutaneous edge, which may make the postoperative course unideal. They report the observations done on 25 patients who underwent operation of thyroidectomy after preparation of skin, the evening before operation, with detergent and antiseptic solution containing cetrimide and chlorexidin, followed by dressing with alcoholic solution of quaternary ammonium salts. The patients were immediately treated before and after 8 and 16 hours from operation with amoxicillin. The results obtained confirm the validness of proximate antibacterial chemoprophylaxis in this surgery too.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
PubMed1980

[The relationship between thyroid surgical operations and blood calcium].

The behaviour of calcemia was studied in a group of patients subjected to surgical operation of varying extent on the thyroid (enucleoresection, hemithyroidectomy, subtotal and total thyroidectomy). Average calcaemia was found to be diminished in all groups of operated cases, in relation to the extent of the operation. Surgery interferes by significantly modifying the variability of calcaemia in the different groups. The frequency of cases with pre-operative calcaemia higher than the average and retaining a postoperative level higher than the minimum of the controls is roughly inversely proportional to the extent of the surgery. A comparison between calcaemia after subtotal thyroidectomy for nodular struma and for Graves' disease did not evidence any statistically significant differences.

Calcium↗
PubMed1980

[The isolated thyroid nodule: notes on our personal experience].

An analysis of 255 patients operated for isolated thyroid nodes is made. Of these, 81% were cold nodes and 19% hot. Carcinomas were present in 21 cases. One carcinoma appeared as a scintigraphically hot node. The frequency of carcinomas, in relation to the nodules observed, was roughly the same in the two sexes. There is parallelism in behaviour of the rate in the two sexes as regards cold nodes, while this is not true for hot nodes. The importance of some recent diagnostic techniques is briefly discussed.

Adolescent↗
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[An initiative for the management of nursing documents].

The access to nursing literature is not always easy: very often nursing journals are not collected in a central library and nurses do not know what is available, even in their own hospital. A group of nurses decided to organize a work group to systematically read and file on a computer program the articles of some of the most well known Italian (and some foreign) nursing journals, and offer the program to all the nurses interested. The steps of the work are described, together with some of the problems encountered and the main characteristics of the computer program.

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