Pain prevalence among inpatients is an important indicator of quality care; it may reach over 80% in various clinical settings. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a teaching hospital to depict… (More)
INTRODUCTION
This prospective study defined the immunological and clinical results after fresh and cryopreserved arterial homograft replacement due to graft infection.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Thirty… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To enhance the awareness that biased pain estimation may undermine its treatment, we sought to determine the congruence categories (CCs) between inpatient self-reported pain (PSRP) and… (More)
The authors present their series of rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids performed from 1991 to 1994 in the Unità di Colon Proctologia of Modena, that is located in the Second Division of Surgery of… (More)
AIM
We present a case of squamous-cell carcinoma developing within perianal lichen planus. This is a chronic or recurrent cutaneous and/or mucosal dermatosis affecting less than 1 percent of the… (More)
The authors observed symptoms relating to the existence of a phantom rectum, a phenomenon about which little is still known, in 233 cases (32.1%) in a series of 724 patients undergoing amputation of… (More)
PURPOSE
Loss of a certain amount of cutaneous tissue of the perineal region may be remedied by first intention with creation of cutaneous flaps, thus preventing second intention healing.
METHODS
We… (More)
The authors report two cases of esophagotracheal fistula without esophageal atresia, of their own observation, on the grounds that the anomaly is less rare than common belief would have it; in fact,… (More)