Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R Turchi.
Laryngeal tuberculosis is considered by now a rare disease after the introduction and use of chemotherapeutic drugs the incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis an increase in the world population, including industrialized countries; this is partly due to the pandemy of the Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The authors report a case of miliary laryngeal tuberculosis.
The pathology and the relative surgical treatment, performed in all the swellings of the parotid gland observed in our clinic, are reported. Particularly the most important topics and problematics, both of short and long term, connected to the surgical therapy carried out, are described. Finally the actual diagnostic aspects and the necessity of an accurate preoperatory staging are discussed.
The authors report on a rare case of Kaposi's sarcoma localized at the laryngeal level. The symptoms caused by the tumor were mainly dysphagia and dyspnea, definitively abolished by mass removal using direct microlaryngoscopy.
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The Authors bring out the results of 8 patients on laryngectomy reconstructive according to Labayle. The Authors think that this type of operation with the precise indication will be positive without fail regarding the function of formation and deglutition. The don't think to express their opinion with regarding the neoplastic disease, because the time is relatively short from the time of operation.
The Authors take into consideration some of the laryngocele cases which came to their observation and do some considerations about diagnosis and surgery of this non-frequent disease of the larynx. They explain the various surgical techniques for the exeresis of the three types of the laryngocele: external, internal and mixed. They describe a new technique for the removal of the internal laryngocele through direct mycrolaryngoscope endoscopy by electric dissection. Such method, when correctly practicable, offers some important advantages in respect of external surgery techniques.
The Authors report a rare case of an hidden tonsilar carcinoma, discovered more than four years after the appearance of a side-cervical adenopathy. After a review of the literature, they express some personal considerations on the diagnostic problem. Particularly they suggest systematical tonsillectomy as an also preventive treatment.
We report a case of neurofibroma of the larynx arising from the aryepiglottic fold, surgically removed by direct micro-laringoscopy. From a review of the literature the case is extremelly rare (35 cases until 1963), expecially looking to the age of the patient (3 1/2 years old), that seems to be the lowest reported until now.
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The Authors study the action of the sodio bromide-iodic water of Monticelli Terme in upper respiratory tract disease and particularly assert that is not to neglect the organic ground on which establishes mucosa's disease. Therman treatment gives the best therapeutic results in every patient presenting chronic inflammatory processes of the upper respiratory trach alternating periods of quiescency and of activity, and poor therapeutic action in patients presenting chronic inveterate diseases with great alterations in vascular and glandular components of the mucosa.
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