[Observations on a population of over-80-year-olds hospitalized in a medical department in the 1985-1986 biennium (1/1/85-12/31/86)]. / Osservazioni su una popolazione di ultraottantenni ricoverati in una divisione di medicina nel biennio 1985-1986 (1.1.85-31.12.86).

542 of 2538 clinical records of admissions to a General Medicine Division in the two-year period 1985-1986 regarding a population of over-eighties have been examined. Personal, clinical, hematochemical and instrumental details were collected, processed and commented, comparing them with the same data obtained in the general population of the same age.