[Esophageal pH-manometry in the evaluation of pathologic gastroesophageal reflux]. / La pH-manometria esofagea nella valutazione del reflusso gastroesofageo patologico.

Combined pressure and pH measurement of distal esophagus is very important for an accurate diagnostic approach and a correct therapeutic course of gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Sixty-eight patients with suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease have been examined by combined pressure and pH-measurement. Collected data confirm the method worth, that allows to study gastro-esophageal reflux and the esophageal motor dysfunction related.

[Enteral nutritional support in the treatment of the high-risk surgical patient]. / Supporto nutrizionale enterale nel trattamento del paziente chirurgico ad alto rischio.

The Authors report about their experience of 27 cases of Total Enteral Feeding. The role of the nitrogen balance inversion, from negative to positive, as an expression of protein anabolism, is specially emphasized. This parameter proves more suitable than the serum albumin level increase, of low statistical significance.

[Selective radiological visualization of the ileum and colon using total isoperistaltic entero-lavage. Personal methods]. / Visualizzazione radiologica ileocolica elettiva mediante l'impiego dell'enterolusi totale isoperistaltica. Metodica personale.

A personal technique for the selective visualisation of the ileum and colon by means of total isoperistaltic enterolusis is described. Various cases and pathological conditions in which the method can most usefully be employed and its advantages with respect to conventional techniques are illustrated. These include a reduced risk of perforation in some instances and the possibility of carrying out a physiological examination of various aspects of intestinal function.

[Use of total isoperistaltic entero-lavage in surgery of the large intestine]. / Impiego dell'enterolusi totale isoperistaltica nella chirurgia del grosso intestino.

Hewitt's method for disinfection of the large intestine is described and a personal series of 84 total isoperistaltic washings carried out at the University of Milan 1st Surgical Pathology Department in the period July 1976 to May 1977 prior to surgery or diagnostic examination (manometry, pancolonscopy, barium enema etc.) is presented. The results confirmed the effectiveness and harmlessness of the method. Personal modifications permitting its wider application in large intestine diagnosis and surgery are mentioned. A personal method for selective radiological visualisation of the ileum and colon employing enterolusis is explained.

[Results of radiotherapy in 22 patients with epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma]. / Risultati della radioterapia in 22 pazienti portatori di sarcoma di Kaposi epidemico.

Radiotherapy is a first choice treatment of skin and oral cavity lesions of epidemic Kaposi sarcoma. It has cosmetic aims in the early stages of the disease, and palliative ones to reduce soreness and associated oedema in the lesions of a more advanced disease. This treatment modality has few side effects and does not modify the immunological condition of the patients. These statements, as they result from the review of the related literature, are here assessed by the experience of the Authors in a series of 22 patients, treated by means of orthovoltage radiotherapy, which allows intracavitary treatments (contact X-ray therapy) and small-sized irradiation fields.