Advances in Abdominal Surgery

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Surgical Infections

   1. Infected pancreatic necrosis complicated by multiple organ failure

      • Lorenzo Dominioni, Angelo Benevento, Giulio Carcano, Giuseppe Peloni, Renzo Dionigi

      Pages 1-11

   2. Correlation between peri-operative blood transfusion and post-operative infective complication

      • Lorenzo Dominioni, Angelo Benevento, Giulio Carcano, Giuseppe Peloni, Francesca A. Rovera, Renzo Dionigi

      Pages 13-18

   3. In vitro antimicrobial activities of β-lactams, aminoglycosides, quinolones, glycopeptides and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections

      • Giovanna Branca, Teresa Spanu, Fiammetta Leone, Patrizia Mazzella, Giuseppe Velardi, Giovanni Fadda

      Pages 19-29

   4. Acute acalculous cholecystitis. clinical and experimental remarks

      • Francesco Rulli, Mario Sianesi, Everardo Zanella

      Pages 31-38

3. Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery

   1. Small diameter porta-caval shunt with ringed PTFE prosthesis for the treatment of portal hypertension

      • Francesco Tonelli, Simone Passini, Giacomo Batignani

      Pages 39-44

   2. Renal failure complicating obstructive jaundice. An updating

      • Attilio M. Farinon, Francesco Rulli, Everardo Zanella

      Pages 45-54

   3. Hepatolithiasis, cystic dilatation of bile ducts and the variable risk of cholangiocarcinoma. Re-evaluation of an old problem

      • Francesco Cetta, Giulia Montalto, Claudio Baldi, Michele Zuckermann, Gennaro Nuzzo

      Pages 55-67

   4. Biliary stent occlusion : a microbiological and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigation

      • Antonio Basoli, Fausto Fiocca, Roberta Di Rosa, Lucilla Baldassarri, Gianfranco Donelli

      Pages 69-80

   5. Cystic tumors of the pancreas : serous cystadenoma and mucinous cystic neoplasm

      • Attilio M. Farinon, Francesco Rulli, Everardo Zanella, Mario Sianesi

      Pages 81-93

4. Colo-Rectal Surgery

   1. A critical review of classification systems for colorectal cancer

      • Anacleto Peracchia, Leopoldo Sarli, Nicola Pietra, Sara Gobbi

      Pages 95-106

   2. Standard surgery and adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer

      • Donato Nitti, Giulia Vieceli, Alberto Marchet, Mario Lise

      Pages 107-125

   3. The follow-up in colorectal cancer

      • Anacleto Peracchia, Nicola Pietra, Leopoldo Sarli

      Pages 127-141

   4. Effect of peri-operative transfusion of whole blood Vs leucocyte-depleted blood on survival after curative surgery for colorectal cancer

      • Mario Rubino, Donato Altomare, Luigi Lupo, Elisabetta Martinelli, Oronzo C. Pannarale, Francesco Puglisi et al.

      Pages 143-151

   5. Radioimmunoguided surgery in colorectal carcinoma patients

      • Mario Roselli, Oreste Buonomo, Carlo Umberto Casciani

      Pages 153-162

   6. Immunobiological approach to colorectal cancer staging : biological markers, cellular “in situ” immunological response and intranuclear DNA imaging analysis. Old and new parameters. retrospective evaluation and prospective trials after a fifteen year experience

      • Giuseppe Midiri, Augusto Lombardi, Andrea Bertolotti, Antonino Tesoriere, Manuele Di Paola, Enrico Giarnieri et al.

      Pages 163-173

5. Minimally Invasive Surgery

   1. Minimally invasive surgery for esophageal diseases

      • Alberto Peracchia, Riccardo Rosati

      Pages 175-182

   2. Comparison between rectopexy by laparoscopy and laparotomy for complete rectal prolapse:clinical and functional results

      • Paolo Boccasanta, Alberto Peracchia

      Pages 183-191

6. Transplantation

   1. Renal function in patients with orthotopic liver transplantation

      • Giorgio Splendiani, Carmela Tozzo, Valentina Mazzarella, Franco Pisani, Oreste Buonomo, Carlo Umberto Casciani et al.

      Pages 193-196

   2. National survey of primary sclerosing cholangitis: an emergent indication for new therapeutic strategies

      • Marco Bacosi, Marco Delle Monache, Francesca Russo, Giovanni L. Ricci

      Pages 197-221

General surgery consists ofa main corpus of propaedeutic elements and clinical problems, which has been modified over the years by the separate development of numerous sub-specialistic branches. Although a common basis on the physiopathology of surgical trauma and post­ operative complications persists, as a result of general knowledge of surgical diseases, there is no doubt that in the spheres of doctrine and application, both research and clinical medicine have distinguished themselves autonomously in many surgical fields (orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, urology, etc.). It is therefore difficult to define the present configuration ofgeneral surgery, but without question abdominal surgery occupies a position of pre-eminent importance within the general framework. We are dealing, in fact, with pathological pictures which occur in a section ofthe body ofvast proportions, in which structures, organs, and morphologically complex spaces are arranged to carry out important functions. They are, therefore, subject to considerably complex pathological alterations, such as to establish an interesting field of diagnostic discussion and an exciting training-ground for surgical activity. It can be affirmed that the diagnosis and cures ofabdominal surgical diseases constitute a test ofthe surgeon's experience. Diagnosis is often entrusted to a differential process, the results ofwhich may be confirmed today by complementary diagnostics. This, however, must be guided by predominating clinical considerations, the exaggerated use of diagnostic techniques, detached from clinical examination, being the cause of very serious errors, which can mislead decision making and human contact, which is the basis ofcorrect medical practice.

• abdominal surgery
• laparoscopy
• liver
• liver transplantation
• minimally invasive surgery
• organ
• surgery
• transplantation

• Department of Surgery, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  Everardo Zanella

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