[The emergency service physician and acute abdominal pathology. Comparative study on 1500 cases]. / Il medico di Pronto Soccorso di fronte alla patologia addominale acuta. Studio comparativo su 1500 casi.

1436 cases of recent abdominal pain encountered in the Casualty Department of Biella Hospital over 18 consecutive months are examined. The incidence of the various abdominal pathologies, the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures adopted in the first hours after admission and any differences between original diagnosis by the general practitioner of the First Aid post, diagnosis on admission and diagnosis on release from hospital are examined.

[Acupuncture in breast diseases. How, when and why]. / L'agopuntura nelle malattie della mammella. Come, quando e perché.

We can value the therapeutic result reached by acupuncture in 43 female patients suffering from mastodinies, compared with other similar groups treated with antinflammatories and polyvitaminics. Before and after treatment every patient went through a complete--clinical--instrumental examination in which we also valued with telethermography the condition of mastosic vascular congestion. Positive considerations are made about the therapeutic validity of acupunture that has reached the highest percentage of success (over 95%) in comparison with other traditional methods, and patients really appreciated that. We nevertheless emphasize the need of always associating a correct, objective and instrumental study before starting any mastalgies therapy, to exclude coexistence of a sort of productive or surgical pathology.

[Telethermography of the soles of the feet. Theory in relation to muscle tension of the back]. / Teletermografia delle piante dei piedi. Ipotesi in relazione alle tensioni muscolari del dorso.

The Authors take into consideration the telethermography of the soles of the feet in fifty-four patients suffering from troubles of the rachis and document the thermic asymmetries of the foot at rest: a static and dynamic load. We can find the above mentioned asymmetries also in patients with normal feet and traditional and normal podographies. If we assume a reflex arch parting from the propioceptors of the muscles of the plantar arch, we can make a type of sole that applied to the patients, normalize the muscular tensions of the back. We illustrate two cases treated with different methods but that have given good results both subjectively and objectively.

[Muscular tensions of the back studied with telethermography: changes induced with static measures and auricular acupuncture. Preliminary report]. / Le tensioni muscolari del dorso nella scoliosi studiate con teletermografia: modificazioni indotte con provvedimenti statici ed auricoloterapia. Communicazione preliminare.

Thirty-six cases affected with scoliosis or scoliotic attitudes secondary to static trouble were examined. On all these cases a telethermography of the back was carried out demonstrating the presence of thermic asymmetry as regards to a normal map presenting hot areas on the side of the curve's concavity. The dysmorphosis secondary to static trouble cases was treated with millimetric rise whilst idiopathic scoliosis was treated with auricle therapy and precisely with the penetration of semipermanent steelplated needles of the bilateral external anthelis face. The exact point of penetration was determined by making use of the F frequency. All the cases treated have undergone long-term controls which document a return towards a normal telethermography. In the case of idiopathic scoliosis a significant modification in the thermography already after fifteen seconds of needle penetration was observed.

[Telethermographic evaluation of the use of acupuncture in fibrocystic dysplasia in the painful phase]. / Valutazione teletermografica dell'utilità dell'agopuntura nella displasia fibrocistica in fase algica.

With this preliminary note the writers propose an objective documentation of acupuncture's effects in fibrocystic mastopathia during the painful phase, using thermography. Five patients have been treated with the following points: 6R, 5MP, 6MP, 4F all in the same session. In four cases clinic remission of symptoms and syntomatic change of the thermography picture have been obtained. In the treated cases menstruations have always been remarked in advance.