[Incidence of dyslipidemia and diseases associated with arteriosclerosis in a hospital population]. / Incidenza delle dislipidemie e malattie associate all'arteriosclerosi in una popolazione ospedaliera.

The authors present the results of a research on 3,888 patients (1,768 males and 2,120 females) admitted to the 1st Internal Medicine Department of Leghorn Hospital during two years (from July 1993 to June 1995). The research is intended to value the hyperlipidaemia's incidence in hospitalized patients, and the association between hyperlipidaemias and some diseases generally considered as consequences or favouring conditions of atherosclerosis. The results of the study show the not secondary role of hyperlipidaemias in hospitalization phenomen and their frequent association with important cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

[Thrombosis of the superior vena cava and lateral-cervical lymphadenopathy (probably of metastatic origin). Report of a case]. / Trombosi della vena cava superiore e linfoadenopatia laterocervicale (di probabile origine metastatica). Descrizione di un caso.

The authors describe a case of superior vena cava thrombosis with laterocervical lymphoadenopathy (probably of metastatic origin). Vascular tumors are a large neoplasm family with a wide clinical and histological spectrum. They may localize on the skin, soft tissues, liver, spleen and parotid gland. The case describes a 65 year-old male, affected by COLD and chronic hepatitis. He came to the hospital for strong gastric pain, which did not vary with meal assumption and objectivity of inflated superficial veins of arms, jugular veins, chest superficial veins and venous capillars and of the epigastric zone, accompanied with right laterocervical lymphoadenomegaly. Endoscopic ultrasonic and X-ray examinations showed a superior vena cava thrombosis determining superficial collateral, azygos and emiazygos vein inflation. The histologic examination of pathologic lymph nodes resulted as hemangioendotelioma/angiosarcoma, a rare case of lymphonodal vascular tumor with a very poor prognosis.