Our experience in pancreatic trauma.

The authors, with this works, call fellow members attention, how is complicate the diagnosis and the following surgical treatment of the associated lesions caused by pancreatic trauma. The pancreatic traumas are today object of discussion for the surgical treatment, and for the lesions associated. In this work is described the experience of some years accumulated in the Emergency Department of the Liguria Region.

[Trauma: when the liver "ruptures".... Our experience of 125 cases]. / Trauma: quando il fegato "si rompe".... Nostra esperienza su 125 casi.

Liver and spleen are the organs most frequently involved in the blunt abdominal trauma. Prognosis is severe in those cases classified as IV or V according to the More score. The imaging techniques, particularly CT scan, offer today a possibility in the nonoperative management of a selected group of haemodynamically stable patients, therefore reducing the need of surgery. The authors' experience in 125 patients observed from 1983 to 1991 is reported.

[Stenosing supra-ampullar adenocarcinoma of the second duodenal portion. A rare case of neoplastic pathology]. / Adenocarcinoma sovra-ampollare stenosante della 2a porzione duodenale. Una rara osservazione di patologia neoplastica.

The Authors present a rare case of stenosing primary adenocarcinoma of the duodenum, excluding the papilla of Vater, for its rarity. They report the diagnostic methods and the surgical procedure (D.C.P. resection).