Rita Bevilacqua

• Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples

Diagnostic laparoscopy has been used in abdominal trauma patients, although its role is not well defined. The safety of laparoscopic evaluation in trauma patients with severe intraabdominal hemorrhage has not yet been analyzed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the hemodynamic and metabolic effects of CO2 pneumoperitoneum (COI) in hemorrhage...

A case of a male patient, 66 years old, who exhibited in a period of six years many multicentric and multifocal synchronic and metachronic myxoid liposarcomas is reported. The authors made a revision of cytogenetics and DNA alterations recently identified in this type of tumor. The chromosomic alterations are represented by the translocation t(12;1...

The authors report a case of malignant gastric leiomyoblastoma (epithelioid leiomyosarcoma) which was mistaken for a pseudocyst of the pancreas. The patient was operated several times in another hospital. At one of the operations a cystogastrostomy was performed. In november, 1989, when operated again by us, a large tumoral mass arising from the po...

The authors report on a study conducted to analyze the professional situation of physicians residing in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, five years after completion of a medical residency program. At least 50% of the professionals were interviewed in each specialty. A heavy work load was observed in physicians working both in the metropolitan area o...

A young female patient had a recurrence of severe spherocytic anemia there years after having been submitted to splenectomy. The presence of two accessory spleens with a size of 3.5 cm and 4.0 cm, was demonstrated by technetium scanning and ultrasound images. Surgical removal of these noduli resulted again in prompt recovery. The development of the...

We analyzed independent treatment variables (age, sex, signs and symptoms, site, size, histopathologic findings, grade, and clinical presentation) and treatment-dependent variables (resectability, type of operation, surgical margins, surgical boundaries, microscopic margins, adjuvant radiotherapy, and adjuvant chemotherapy) in 80 patients with prim...

We evaluated the importance of 14 clinical and pathologic variables as determinants of prognosis in patients with malignant melanoma and positive regional lymph nodes at axillary dissection. The records of 197 patients operated on between 1974 and 1984 were reviewed. Univariate analysis indicated as prognostically significant the number (p less tha...

We evaluated the importance of 14 clinical and pathologic variables as determinants of prognosis in patients with malignant melanoma and positive regional lymph nodes at axillary dissection. The records of 197 patients operated on between 1974 and 1984 were reviewed. Univariate analysis indicated as prognostically significant the number (p < 0.001)...

The authors review the cases of traumatic rectal injuries admitted to the Emergency Service of the "Hospital das Clínicas", University of São Paulo Medical School, during the period of July 1981 to July 1988. Forty-five patients (62.5%) had their injuries due to gunshot, 14 (19.4%) due to foreign bodies on the rectum, 10 (13.8%) due to blunt trauma...

Body composition parameters were studied in different nutritional conditions in Wistar rats with experimental cancer. Results were submitted to statistical analysis. Under a hyperlipidic diet, fat increased in control rats and decreased in animals with tumor; sodium increase and potassium decrease was verified in rats with tumor. The NA/K ratio inc...

In Wistar rats bearing a Walker-256 carcinoma flank tumor, a standard skin wound was inflicted on the backs of the animals. Nitrogen intake and nitrogen balance measures were obtained. The standard wound did not promote tumor growth. Wound contraction in tumor-bearing animals was not different from that in tumor-free animals. Tumor-bearing rats had...

Two cases of perforated duodenal diverticulum, treated at the surgical Emergency Service of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo Medical School are reported. Although duodenal diverticula are frequent their perforation in is a rare and dougerous complication. Diagnosis and surgical treatment are discussed. We believe that excisi...

The authors review the cases of complex pelviperineal injuries admitted to the Emergency Service of the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo during the period 1983-1988. The management of these patients followed a protocol that consisted of: exhaustive lavage of the injury with extensive debridement, leaving t...

A controlled comparative study was conducted on the contraction of open wounds in protein-depleted and depleted-repleted Wistar rats. The wounds were photographed on days 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, and 22 after infliction. The slides were projected and the areas corresponding to the wound were measured by planimetry. The results were analyzed using expon...

The effects of protein malnutrition on wound contraction experimentally produced in Wistar rats were studied. The wounds were photographed on the first, fourth, eighth, eleventh, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-second days. From dressings made from the projection of transparencies the contracted wounds were measured with a planimeter. Open wounds...

Liver failure is a serious complication when small bowel bypass is used for control of obesity. To analyse the changes in liver microscopic morphology and liver fatty acids content, 42 rabbits divided in two groups were studied. The 21 animals of group I had 50% of the distal jejuno-ileum excluded and anastomosed to the cecum. The proximal 50% were...

The changes of sphincter of Oddi's resistance, induced by choledochal perfusion of conjugated (taurocolic) and non-conjugated (colic) biliary acid solutions, in anesthetized dogs, were studied. The perfusions were made at a constant flow and intracholedochal pressures were registered. The mean number of contractions per minute, the mean maximal pre...

The authors propose a fast and accurate method for the analysis of water and electrolytes in rat skin and skeletal muscle fragments, weighing about 400 mg. The complete analysis can be performed in 7 hr and so can be easily adapted for clinical applications.

Fifteen experimental orthotopic liver transplants were performed in dogs after hypothermic preservation of the organs for up to 3 hr. Hepatic function in the postoperative period was assessed by laboratory determination of serum glutamicoxalacetic transaminase and alkaline phosphatase levels and of serum bilirrubin. The results of these tests, the...