[Our experience with the diagnostic and prognostic unreliability of pre- and postoperative CEA in human breast cancer]. / Nostra esperienza sulla inattendibilità diagnostica e prognostica del CEA pre- e postoperatorio nel carcinoma mammario umano.

The carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels were determined in 42 breast cancer patients at I, II, III, IV stages of TNM classification. Plasmatic preoperative CEA levels was under 6 ng/ml in the 94% of patients. The postoperative CEA levels of six patients who developed metastases during the follow-up was elevated in five cases, but the elevation never preceded the clinical and radiological diagnosis of metastases.

[Long-term results of prolonged dicoumarol anticoagulant therapy in 327 peipheral arteriopathic subjects]. / Risultati a distanza della terapia anticoagulante dicumarolica protratta su 327 arteriopatici periferici.

327 patients with peripheral arteriopathy were treated solely with protracted dicoumarol anticoagulant therapy. The indication for such therapy was applied not only in patients in whom the high risk and poor run-off contraindicated revascularisation operations, but also in those in good general conditions at the 2nd or 3rd stage with iliac and femoral thromboses. Two-thirds of the arteriopathics observed were given the anticoagulant treatment for more than two years, with a maximum of eight years. Clinical evolution of the disease is discussed in relation to the treated patients' age and stage, while emphasis is given to the very low incidence of complications and contraindications, despite the long period of treatment.

[Experimental venous thrombosis induced in dogs by electric stimulation of venous wall (author's transl)]. / Trombosi venosa sperimentale indotta nel cane con stimolazione elettrica (genesi ed evoluzione del trombo)

The Authors describe an experimental method to induce venous thrombosis in dogs by venous walls electric stimulation. The aspects of thrombogenesis, the evolution of thrombus and venous wall lesions at level of primary thrombus as well as extensive thrombosis, are studied. These studies based on histological findings at different steps from electric stimulation.

[Experimental observations on posttraumatic venous thrombosis]. / Osservazioni sperimentali sulle trombosi venose post-traumatiche

Venous thrombosis had been experimentally induced in dogs by two different ways of trauma: contusion of whole venous wall and stripping of intimal layer. Both ways produced thrombosis in 33% of cases. The Authors describent histological findings of venous wall and thrombi with attention to genesis and evolution of these post-traumatic venous thrombosis.