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Adenocarcinoma , Duodenal Neoplasms , Ileal Neoplasms , Jejunal Neoplasms , Adenocarcinoma/surgery , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Carcinoid Tumor/surgery , Duodenal Neoplasms/surgery , Female , Humans , Ileal Neoplasms/surgery , Jejunal Neoplasms/surgery , Leiomyosarcoma/surgery , Lymphoma/surgery , Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/surgery , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/surgery , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
The results of dermal or autologous full-thickness skin graft implantation in a series of 20 patients are reported. Seventeen patients were affected by incisional hernia, 2 by a large umbilical hernia and 1 by fibromatosis of the abdominal wall. The surgical procedure is described together with the histological findings of the skin grafts, 4 years after implantation.
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Abdominal Muscles/surgery , Hernia, Ventral/surgery , Postoperative Complications/surgery , Skin Transplantation , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
A biliopancreatic bypass operation has been used to treat obese patients since June 1978, and 10 women have been followed-up for over a year. Biliopancreatic shunts reduce food absorption by eliminating enzymatic and biliary secretion activity in the intestinal lumen. Bodyweight loss was satisfactory, was proportional to excess weight, and was evaluated as being a mean of 33.1 kg. The constant and sometimes dramatic diarrhea provoked by conventional jejuno-ileal bypass operations was not observed. Hepatic steatosis, frequently present to varying degrees, was never made worse : in one case it even disappeared completely, while in another case biological tests conducted one year after operation showed considerable regression. Neither severe complications nor mortality were reported in this series.
