Minerva chirurgica

BackgroundThe causes of obstructed defecation syndrome (ODS) can actually be either functional or mechanical (primary or secondary deficit of the sensitivity, slow bowel transit, pelvic floor dyssynergia, internal and external rectal prolap…

AIM: The aim of this paper was to assess the risk factors for endometrioma recurrence in women underwent laparoscopic surgery for endometrioma. METHODS: This retrospective designed study included 113 cases that underwent laparoscopic surger…

AIM: Pelvic pain affects 4% to 39% of women and accounts for 10-40% of all outpatient gynecologic visits. The etiology of painful endometriosis-related has not been fully delineated. No studies have been published concerning gluten-free die…

Treatment of acute colorectal malignant obstruction, by using self-expandable metallic stents is useful for both palliative and decompressive therapy before the final surgical treatment. In this case, the patient may be benefit from a perio…

In literature an elevated number of isolated cases of endometriosis in post-laparoscopic scar or laparoscopic trocar tract are described. Actually no theory can completely account for endometriosis, and it is most likely that a combination …

BACKGROUND: Early laparoscopy plays a very important role in the diagnosis and treatment of uncertain surgical diseases. Its use is not very clear, in part because it is a very new technique and secondly because its application in emergency…

Regarding a case of rectal endometriosis, presenting with cyclic menstrual rectal bleeding, the authors discuss the clinical and treatment aspects of such a rare pathology. History was sufficient to indicate the diagnosis which was confirme…

ObjectiveTo assess the role of interventional radiology in the conservative treatment of postoperative pancreatic fistula.Case reportA case of a high flow mixed entero-bilio-pancreatic fistula caused by dehiscence of pancreatic-jejunal anas…

The authors starting from the description of a clinical case of intestinal endometriosis, who underwent emergency surgery for acute intestinal obstruction, take into consideration the incidence, the pathogenesis and the pathological charact…

The authors report a case of colon leiomyoma revealed by spontaneous hemoperitoneum. This a rare case in which we do not have a gastrointestinal bleeding of the tumor with melena but an endoperitoneal bleeding with hemoperitoneum. Pathologi…

The term endometriosis means the presence in an ectopic site of normal functioning endometrial tissue, the ectopic endometrial tissue, as the normal uterine mucosa, undergo hormonal stimulation and follow the proliferative and functional ch…

Intestinal endometriosis can rarely show itself bowel obstruction. An accurate anamnesis, radiological tests and endoscopy are of some use for correct diagnosis. Frequently however, differential diagnosis with others of pathology is not pos…

A case of sigmoid-rectal endometriosis prompted the authors to focus attention on the question of indications for surgery and operative tactics in intestinal endometriosis. In this case, the presence of a pelvic mass which could not be cut …

The paper broadly outlines the technique of laparoscopic cholecystectomy used by the authors to treat patients suffering from calculosis of the gallbladder. Basing their comments on the French school, the authors review the literature to id…

Acute pathologies of the biliary tract in geriatric patients were examined in this study taking into account the major causes, treatment used and results obtained. All patients aged over 65 who had been hospitalised during the past 17 years…

The Authors report a case of Castleman's disease in a 45-year-old woman. She was admitted to hospital because of a thrombophlebitis of the left lower limb. An abdominal echotomography showed evidence of a mass with a diameter of about 6 cm …

The authors report their experience of a case of choledochocele (choledochal cyst) with stones, associated with a gallstone. The exceptional observation diagnosed before the operation node it possible to program total removal of the cyst.

On the basis of two recently treated cases of endometriosis, the main aspects of this unusual pathology are examined; in particular its aetiopathogenesis, clinical picture and treatment still provide reasons of uncertainty. On the basis of …

Endometriosis on a caesarean scar is a well-known, though not frequent event. The lesion generally presents as a painful nodule of the abdominal wall during the menstrual cycle. Pain cyclicity is a useful sign for diagnosis. Treatment consi…

The clinical, anatomopathological and radiological data concerning adenomyoma of the gall bladder are considered. The differential features of the pain in patients suffering from adenomyoma and calculosis are reviewed and a line of therapeu…

Bilateral hysteroadnexectomy and rectosigmoid resection were successfully employed in a case of acute intestinal occlusion due to endometriotic rectosigmoid stenosis in a 36-yr-old woman. The endometriotic character of the stenosis was only…