Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to O Tintisona.
Of unknown etiology, mainly located on the upper limbs, the nodular fasciitis nowadays is considered as a reactive inflammatory lesion more than a neoplastic one. With very few symptoms, it can be diagnosed through histology and the extent of the excision is related to the report of the pathological examination.
By clinical observation and surgical treatment of a patient with a primitive lymphoma of the breast, the authors describe the nosological approach, the correct diagnosis and the relative surgical treatment in that disease.
The Authors, reporting a recent case of small bowel lymphoma, review progress in diagnosis, methodology and therapeutical approach. They also stress the crucial role of surgery as diagnostic and therapeutic tool, sometimes curative in early stages, and however necessary for a proper staging and definition of these rare neoplasms of intestinal tube.
The Authors report the case of a patient who underwent video-thoracoscopic resection of a solitary pulmonary metastasis. She presented, after about two years, a local relapse (implantation) in the trocar site. Pathogenesis and surgical therapeutic problems are discussed as well.
The Authors report their experience matured during the last decade in the Institute of III Surgical Clinic of the University "La Sapienza" in Rome, relatively to 174 patients operated of splenectomy of which 8 for not parassitair benign cystic pathology. After the nosologic organization of the varied types of cystics splenopaty is examined the different symptomatology and is discussed the different treatment.
The Authors report their three year experience with five patients suffering from gastric leiomyoma, each with different anatomical and clinical characteristics. The Authors have performed a research of the different diagnostics, clinical and therapeutic problems of these rare tumors that sometimes are asymptomatic in spite of the large size they reach, but more frequently they present with haemorrhagic symptoms which tend to point to other more frequent pathological conditions. Diagnosis can only be suspected, but cannot be reached without a histological examination, also if the classifications of these tumors have been argument of many changes, particularly by the light of the recent diagnostics possibilities offered by ultrastructural and immunohistochemical examination.
The case of a Fournier's syndrome in a 58 years old patient is reported from the Authors that describe the ethiopathogenetic and therapeutic aspects. They analyse the importance of an early surgical treatment associated with antibiotic therapy and later a riparation of the lesions with a myocutaneous skin flap of TLF.