Mesenteric panniculitis. A case report.

We reviewed the clinical history, and the physical, laboratory and ultrasonography examinations of a young female suffering from mesenteric panniculitis. In our case, as well as those described by other authors, definitive diagnosis was histological and our patient has had a benign course of the disease.

[Postmenopausal osteoporosis. Current therapy protocols]. / Osteoporosi postmenopausale. Attuali protocolli di terapia.

The Authors consider the etiology postmenopause osteoporosis and the drugs for a modern therapy of this disease. They also analyse the effectiveness and the unfavourable effects of these drugs and suggest a personal treatment for osteoporosis.

[Magnesium in obstetric pathology]. / Il magnesio nella patologia ostetrica.

Mean levels of maternal blood magnesium in a group of pathological pregnancies were compared to levels found in a group of physiological pregnancies. The paper concludes that low levels of blood magnesium are an improbable condition in pregnancy due to the existence of protective mechanisms, and that they are therefore rarely the cause of the most common obstetric pathologies.

[Vulvar dystrophy]. / Distrofie vulvari.

The pathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of vulvar dystrophies are reviewed, special attention being paid to a comparison of therapeutic tendencies past and present. The advantages of topical treatment with corticosteroids and testosterone and those of the most recent surgical techniques are compared respectively with the results obtained in past years using estrogenic topical treatment and demolition surgery.