[Care and rehabilitation of colostomized patients]. / L'assistenza e la riabilitazione del colostomizzato.

The enterostomies represent the result of a surgical operation that we have been carrying out more frequently in the last few years both on account of the neoplastic and inflammatory pathology of the large bowel; in fact about 40,000 colostomies are effectuated in Italy every year. On the basis of what has been said, the problem of assistance and of rehabilitation of the patients with colostomy assumes great importance. Therefore the authors have examined the various phases of the assistance (pre, intra and post-operatory) and they have underlined the rehabilitation of such patients. They conclude by affirming that it is indispensable to have a multidisciplinary collaboration to insure a correct assistance and rehabilitation, which involves the surgeon, the radiotherapist, the enterostomist, the psychologist and the oncologist; only in this way will they be able to restore to society these patients capable of living the rest of their lives if not happy at least serenely.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic considerations in early gastric cancer]. / Considerazioni diagnostiche e terapeutiche sull'early gastric cancer.

A ten-year series of early gastric cancer is reported, stress being laid on the diagnostic and therapeutic problems associated with the condition. The importance of intensified mass screening programmes, particularly in populations at risk, is underlined to enable these potentially dangerous conditions to be treated in time.

[Clinico-therapeutic considerations on primary gastric lymphoma]. / Considerazioni clinico-terapeutiche sul linfoma gastrico primitivo.

The Authors report four cases of primary gastric lymphomas. They stress the anatomopathological, clinical and therapeutic problems related to this disease because, at present, they are still discussed.

[The inguinal hernia today. Technical notes]. / L'ernia inguinale oggi. Note di tecnica.

Following a short introduction on Bassini's operation, alternative surgical techniques are discussed: Postempski, Halsted, Mugnai-Ferrari, Anson-McVay, Marcy, Ferguson, Shouldice with their indications, advantages and disadvantages. Personal experience in the surgical treatment of 516 patients suffering from inguinal hernia is then reported and stress is laid on the need for precise anatomic knowledge of the inguinal region and skill in one technique in particular to limit the risk of recurrences.

[Retroperitoneal neurilemmoma (anatomo-pathologic and clinical considerations)]. / Il neurilemmoma retroperitoneale (considerazioni anatomo-patologiche e cliniche).

After extensively reviewing the literature on primary retroperitoneal tumours, the authors present a case of retroperitoneal neurilemmoma. They stress the rareness of this disease and go on to discuss the related epidemiological, histogenetic and anatomo-pathological problems. Finally, they deal at some length with the symptoms of the disease and the diagnostic strategy they adopt, emphasizing the usefulness of CT and ultrasonic tomography in the study of the retroperitoneal region.

[Clinical comments on a case of retroperitoneal lipoma]. / Considerazioni cliniche su di un caso di lipoma retroperitoneale.

The authors show a case of retroperitoneal lipoma, histologically ascertained; they state its origin and the clinical features, and analyse the different diagnostical methods, particularly dwelling upon urography, TC and selective arteriography. They, at last, point out such pathology, although benign, is burdened by a high risk of relapses and by the possibility to turn into malignant. As a conclusion, they assert the importance of the radicalness of the intervention, joined to bioptic drawings in different parts of the tumor extirpated, with the purpose to identify, as precociously as possible, an eventual malignant degeneration of the same lipoma.