[Conservative treatment of post-traumatic hepatic hematoma. Case reports]. / Trattamento conservativo dell'ematoma epatico post-traumatico. Casistica clinica.

Post-traumatic hepatic haematomas may need surgical or conservative treatment. TC allows exact stadiation of hepatic lesions, detecting those mandatory for surgical approach. Haemodinamic unsteadiness and/or necessity of > 40 ml/kg blood transfusion suggest serious uncontrollable bleeding, that is surgical emergency. Three cases of post-traumatic heapatic haematomas recovered after conservative treatment (clinical, haematological and radiological survey) are described.

[Recto-cutaneous penile fistula. A description of a clinical case and review of the literature]. / Fistola retto-cutanea peniena. Descrizione di un caso clinico e revisione della letteratura.

This describes a newborn with an imperforate anus associated to a fistulous track extending along the scrotal raphe and opening at the penis top. This variant appears to be a low anomaly. The surgical treatment of this pathology is discussed.

[The human tail. Report of a case of coccygeal retroposition in childhood]. / Osservazione di un caso clinico di retroposizione coccigea in età pediatrica.

The authors explain a little patient's case of coccydynia by back-position of the coccyx; the patient underwent an operation of partial resection with favourable clinical outcome. According to classification, the treated case corresponds to vestigial tail.

[Amniotic band syndrome. Clinico-therapeutic considerations on 3 cases]. / Sindrome da briglie amniotiche. Considerazioni clinico-terapeutiche su tre casi.

In three patients with "Congenital Annular Constricting Bands Syndrome" the monstrous leg and foot lymphedemas were aesthetically and functionally cured using the two-stage Ombredanne's crown-like operation. Plaster splints were useful in curing and consolidating the tibia and fibula pseudoarthrosis present in one case and in curing the clubfeet present in the other two cases. Some consideration is made to the different etiopathogenetic theories, proposed in the past and recently, to explain this syndrome.

[Apple-peel syndrome. A clinical case report and therapeutic considerations]. / Apple-peel syndrome. Osservazione su un caso clinico e considerazioni terapeutiche.

A recently observed case of proximal jejunal atresia with apple-peel syndrome and associated multiple ileal atresia is reported. Some clinical and anatomopathological features are pointed out. Surgical techniques and medical care are analysed.