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Clinical Microbiology and Infection 09/2009; 15 Suppl 2:142-3. · 4.54 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Malignant deciduoid mesothelioma is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma. This tumour generally has poor prognosis, and can be asbestos related.
To identify peculiar genetic changes responsible for critical phases in pathogenesis of malignant deciduoid mesothelioma and their prognostic relevance.
Comparative genomic hybridisation was carried out in six cases of malignant pleural deciduoid mesothelioma, four sporadic and two familial. All cases were found to be asbestos related. Four patients died during follow-up and the mean survival was 29.5 (SD 14.2, range 12-43) months.
Genetic abnormalities were found in all the tumour tissues, the most frequent being chromosomal gains at 1p, 12q, 17, 8q, 19 and 20 and losses at 13q, 6q and 9p. Survival was found to be longer in those patients who presented a smaller number of losses (< or =2) in the tumorous chromosomes.
Although numerous genetic changes are presented by deciduoid mesotheliomas, certain chromosomal regions are preferentially affected. The clinical outcome for this mesothelioma subtype is predicted by the number of losses.
Journal of Clinical Pathology 07/2006; 59(7):764-9. · 2.31 Impact Factor
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Annali di igiene: medicina preventiva e di comunità 7(6):445-50.
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Annali di igiene: medicina preventiva e di comunità 5(1):57-73.
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ABSTRACT: Results of an intervention of medical surveillance are reported. Medical surveillance was performed, from the Renam COR Basilicata-Puglia, in favour of 67 workers ex exposed to asbestos of the firm ex-Materit of Ferrandina that produced manufactured articles in cement-asbestos. The actual normative (art 29 DL 277/91) foresees that the competent plant physician informed the workers about the necessities to undergo to sanitary checks after the cessation of the activity, nevertheless the law doesn't establish that whom owes to make load of the medical surveillance. Cor, as Regional Reference Center, like in DPMC 308/2002, can guarantee definition of guide lines for uniform approach to regional level of all the figures involved in the management of the ex-exposed worker problem, in clinician and legal point of view and in the diffusion of the information (general practitioners, physicians operating in prevention services (SPESAL), competent plant physicians, hospital physicians and experts, labour unions).
Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia 25 Suppl(3):245-6.
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ABSTRACT: The biohazard represents a major occupational risk among workers in the health sector, this risk is not only exclusive for healthcare workers but involve also nursing students. The study reports data of a survey on injuries from accidental puncture in a group of 223 students of the third year of Nursing of Bari University. The 18% of students say they have suffered over the past 12 months an accidental puncture with sharp instruments. The cutting device most frequently involved is the needle from the syringe and insulin. The most at risk are the recovered and disposal of the needle. The biohazard in training is further compounded by factors such as lack of experience and skill manuals consolidated combined with a non perception of the risk. In the obligation of protection, training and information to students of Nursing, the University must implement programs aimed at both knowledge of the risks to which they are exposed, as well as security procedures to contain an emerging risk, which one of injury from sharp instruments, which are exposed young students not yet in employment.
Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia 29(3 Suppl):631-2.
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ABSTRACT: The occupational exposure to wood dust, classified by IARC as carcinogenic certain may determine the onset of epithelial tumors of the mass graves and nasal sinuses. The symptoms of these malignancies are aspecific (nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea), the diagnosis is often delayed. CLINICAL CASE: Worker of 59 years occupied, from 1960 to 2005, in carpentry (construction of coffins), who died in 2006 for a nasal adenocarcinoma of the mass graves extended to the cranial base, initially considered intracranial cancer given the wide cranial fossae prior to the histological diagnosis. The case is emblematic to late diagnosis and long survival (the worker has survived for more than three years after TAC diagnosis of intracranial mass occurred in 2003). CONCLUSION: Extending the cranial base of a cancer of the nose and sinuses occurred in a worker exposed to wood dust is a serious critical in the system of health surveillance in the company. This rare neoplasm is a "sentinel event" that highlights a problem of underestimation of this occupational tumor and consequent failure of occupational disease complaint is therefore required a careful accounting and reporting of cases.
Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia 29(3 Suppl):805-7.
