Biomedical subjects

M G Lacaita

Publications and source records attributed to M G Lacaita.

14 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1990

[Echography in the study of sialolithiasis].

The US results are reported of 38 patients affected with sialolithiasis of the major salivary glands (37 cases of submandibular and 1 of parotid location). Sonography allowed all intraparenchymal calculi to be detected, as well as 59% of intraductal calculi. Associated US pathological features were: gland swelling in 36 cases (94%); ductal ectasia in 14 cases (61%); irregular echo structural arrangement of glandular parenchyma in 3 patients with multiple stones. US can be considered an useful diagnostic tool in sialolithiasis, for it allows the alterations in glandular structure in the late stages to be evaluated. Moreover, it may be repeated as often as necessary in the cases with multiple and/or recurrent stones.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1990

[Orofacial tuberculosis. A general and anatomico-clinical analysis of 35 cases].

Anatomo-clinical data of 35 cases of maxillofacial tuberculosis are reported; the different clinical presentations of primary and secondary forms (ulcers are the most common clinical feature) and of rare form (lupus) are described and the problems concerning differential diagnosis and therapy are discussed. In the author's experience the microinvasive cytohistologic techniques (FNAB) with elective histochemical stains have been founded very usefully. The role of the stomatologist in the early diagnosis of this still-diffuse and misleading pathology is also underlined.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1989

[Primary oral peripheral chondrosarcoma. Anatomo-clinical aspects and presentation of 2 cases with periodontal onset].

After a brief analysis of the anatomoclinical aspects of chondrosarcoma in general and of the characteristic and particular aspects of the forms with maxillofacial onset (lower age of onset, elective sites of onset anterior in the maxillary and posterior in the mandible, often insignificant standard X-ray pictures, high percentage of error in clinical and histological diagnosis) two cases of peripheral periodontal onset, with low degree of malignity (grade 1), with aspecific clinical and radiological aspects, both locally recurrent several times after nonradical surgery are reported.

Adult↗

PubMed1989

[Clinico-statistical, morphologic and microstructural analysis of 400 cases of sialolithiasis].

After reviewing the successive phases of lithogenesis, from dyschylia to outright calculosis, the clinico-epidemiological data on 400 cases of salivary calculosis with incidence according to location (94% submandibular, with 72% intraductal calculi), sex (70% male), age (86% between the second and fifth decades), concomitant pathologies (diabetes mellitus in 25% of cases, arterial hypertension in 20% of cases, chronic hepatopathies in 10% of cases) are presented. The morphological and microstructural aspects of the calculi, observed in polarised light under the optical microscope are reported. The scanty quantity of inorganic tissue contained and the presence of multiple and multidirectional growth nuclei in every calculus examined are pointed out.

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PubMed1986