Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-12-01Epub Date: 2020-10-02DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08598-3
Paolo Veronesi, Federico Ghidinelli, Giovanni Corso
{"title":"Axillary surgery in breast cancer: evolution and de-escalation.","authors":"Paolo Veronesi, Federico Ghidinelli, Giovanni Corso","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08598-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08598-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38445762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-12-01Epub Date: 2020-08-06DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08316-9
Melissa Laus, Marianna Trignani, Domenico Crescenzi, Marco Radici, Adelchi Croce
{"title":"Prevention of withdrawal symptoms in alcoholic patients with head and neck cancer.","authors":"Melissa Laus, Marianna Trignani, Domenico Crescenzi, Marco Radici, Adelchi Croce","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08316-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08316-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The role of alcohol abuse is common in the onset of cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract, especially that affecting the tongue, floor of the mouth, palatine tonsil and piriform sinus. The consequences of the abuse of alcohol immediately after surgery in these patients are less known. But they are very important to achieve good final results.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To try to understand the best treatment for withdrawal symptoms in a group of Italian patient with head and neck cancers, we administered a 10-item questionnaire. Subsequently, we decided to send the questionnaire to the main Italian centers of head and neck oncology using the platform of online surveys SurveyMonkey.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results show clearly that it is not easy, within the Italian \"latin\" culture and lifestyle to correctly identify the alcoholic patient (patients in the last stage of the of the disease with a \"behavioral dependency\") and that the centers which address these problems mostly use a drug treatment, employing in particular two classes of drugs, associated or not with thiamine, with a varying quantity of other vitamins.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>It is important to know the early withdrawal syndrome to assess the ideal treatment. We propose a personal protocol to present this complication.</p>","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38245416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08600-9
Giacomo Montagna, Giovanni Corso, Rosa Di Micco, Nathalie Van Den Rul, Nicola Rocco
{"title":"Axillary management after neoadjuvant treatment.","authors":"Giacomo Montagna, Giovanni Corso, Rosa Di Micco, Nathalie Van Den Rul, Nicola Rocco","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08600-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08600-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since its introduction nearly 30 years ago, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become the standard technique to stage the axilla for the great majority of patients with early breast cancer. While the accuracy of SLNB in clinically node-negative patients who undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is similar to the upfront surgery setting, modifications of the technique to improve the false negative rate are necessary in node-positive patients at presentation. Currently, patients who present with matted nodes, cN1 patients who fail to downstage to cN0 with NAC and those with pathological residual disease have an indication to undergo axillary lymph node dissection. Ongoing trials will confirm if extensive nodal irradiation can replace surgery in patients with residual nodal disease after NAC and if nodal radiotherapy can be omitted in patients who achieve nodal pathological complete response. The aim of this review was to focus on the open questions on the management of the axilla after NAC.</p>","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38735853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-12-01Epub Date: 2020-08-06DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08274-7
Mario Schietroma, Lucia Romano, Beatrice Pessia, Antonella Mattei, Fabiana Fiasca, Francesco Carlei, Antonio Giuliani
{"title":"TNM: a simple classification system for complicated intra-abdominal sepsis after acute appendicitis.","authors":"Mario Schietroma, Lucia Romano, Beatrice Pessia, Antonella Mattei, Fabiana Fiasca, Francesco Carlei, Antonio Giuliani","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08274-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08274-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Delayed diagnosis in case of acute appendicitis (AA) could lead to complicated intra-abdominal sepsis (IAS). Grading systems are not commonly employed in the clinical practice, because they are too complicated or too specific. Therefore, we suggest grading the severity of complicated IAS after AA with a simple system: TNM, an acronym borrowed by cancer staging where T indicates temperature, N neutrophils, and M multiple organ failure (MOF). This prospective observational study evaluates the predictive value of the TNM score on mortality of patients with complicated IAS after AA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Sixty-eight patients with complicated IAS after AA were treated. Three classes of attributes were chosen: temperature (T), neutrophils count (N), and MOF (M). After defining the categories T (T0-T4), N (N0-N3) and M (M0-M2), these were grouped in stages (0-IV). Variables analyzed for their possible relation to death were age, sex, temperature, neutrophils count, preoperative organ failure, immunocompromised status, stage (0-IV). Odds ratios were calculated in a univariate and multivariate analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>TNM staging was: one patient stage 0; 16 patients at stage I; 26 patients at stage II; 16 patients at stage III; nine patients at stage IV. Death occurred in 15 patients (22%). Neutrophil count, preoperative organ failure, immunocompromised status, stages III-IV were potential predictors of postoperative death in univariate analysis; only stage IV was significant independent predictor of postoperative mortality in multivariate analysis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>TNM classification is very easy to use; it helps to define the mortality risk and is useful to objectively compare patients with sepsis.</p>","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38245413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-12-01Epub Date: 2020-08-06DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08356-X
Angelo Zappalà, Marco Vacante, Giuseppe A Reina, Carlo Reina, Davide Mascali, Diego Piazza, Antonio Biondi, Vincenzo G Piazza
{"title":"Altemeir procedure in a singular case of irreducible total rectal prolapse.","authors":"Angelo Zappalà, Marco Vacante, Giuseppe A Reina, Carlo Reina, Davide Mascali, Diego Piazza, Antonio Biondi, Vincenzo G Piazza","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08356-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08356-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38245849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08578-8
A. Giordano, Lorenzo Forasassi, Silvia Galli
{"title":"A strategy to guarantee oncological surgical care during the COVID-19: the public and private healthcare partnership.","authors":"A. Giordano, Lorenzo Forasassi, Silvia Galli","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08578-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08578-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45401356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08632-0
A. Balla, A. De Carlo, D. Aguzzi, S. Petrocca, A. Guida, F. Saraceno, R. Scaramuzzo, G. Fanello, A. Borrello, F. Ferranti, P. Lepiane
{"title":"Surgical management protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic in an Italian non-referral center.","authors":"A. Balla, A. De Carlo, D. Aguzzi, S. Petrocca, A. Guida, F. Saraceno, R. Scaramuzzo, G. Fanello, A. Borrello, F. Ferranti, P. Lepiane","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08632-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08632-0","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000In the surgical scenario, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) diffusion worldwide entails on one end the need to continue to perform surgery at least in case of emergency or oncologic surgery, in patients with or without COrona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and on the other hand, to avoid the pandemic diffusion both between patients and medical and nursing team. Aim is to report our surgical management protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic in an Italian non-referral center.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Data retrieved during the outbreak for the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 8 to May 4, 2020 (study period) were analyzed and compared to data obtained during the same period in 2019 (control period).\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000During the study period 41 surgical procedures (24 electives, 17 emergency surgical procedures) underwent surgery in comparison to 99 procedures in the control period. Stratified procedures in elective and emergency surgery, and based on the indication for surgery, the only statistically significant difference was observed in the elective surgery regarding the abdominal wall surgery (0 vs. 13 procedures, p=0.0339). Statistically significant differences were not observed regarding the colorectal and the breast oncologic surgery. All stuff members were COVID-19 free.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000The present protocol proved to be safe and useful to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection before and after surgery for both patients and stuff. The pandemic was responsible for the reduction in number of procedures performed, anyway for the oncologic surgery a statistically significant volume reduction in comparison to 2019 was not observed.","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49481741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08594-6
M. Zizzo, D. Tumiati, Federica Mereu, C. Castro Ruiz, F. Biolchini, M. Zanelli, F. Sanguedolce, V. Annessi
{"title":"Intraoperative lymph nodes status evaluation and lymphadenectomy in pancreaticoduodenectomy: surgical considerations based on the current literature.","authors":"M. Zizzo, D. Tumiati, Federica Mereu, C. Castro Ruiz, F. Biolchini, M. Zanelli, F. Sanguedolce, V. Annessi","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08594-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08594-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45658624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08545-4
J. Martellucci, Andrea Damigella, C. Bergamini, G. Alemanno, D. Pantalone, A. Coratti, P. Muiesan, F. Cianchi, P. Prosperi
{"title":"Emergency surgery in the time of Coronavirus: the pandemic effect.","authors":"J. Martellucci, Andrea Damigella, C. Bergamini, G. Alemanno, D. Pantalone, A. Coratti, P. Muiesan, F. Cianchi, P. Prosperi","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08545-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08545-4","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000The COVID-19 epidemic became a challenge for Emergency Departments (ED) and a remarkable reduction in surgical emergencies has been widely noticed. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of the pandemic period in the need of surgical emergencies.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Between January 1st and May 31st 2020 all the consecutive general surgery emergencies performed by the Careggi University hospital emergency surgery unit were prospectively recorded and compared to the same period of 2019. Demographic and clinical data were recorded and analyzed.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000The number of surgical procedures decreased only in the month of March 2020 (compared to 2019), while in April the total numer of emergency surgical procedures was similar. Only appendectomy, complicated hernia repair and colonic resection were significantly reduced (40%, 48% and 33% respectively). The number of small intestine excision, cholecystectomy and lysis of peritoneal adhesions remained stable throughout the entire period. No statistically significant differences were found considering age, sex, Emergency Surgery Score, mortality, ICU postoperative admission and time between admission and surgery, even when analyzed with multivariate analysis for every single surgical procedure, suggesting a comparable disease severity and comorbility patterns. Mortality in COVID patients was 25%, compared to 7% of no-covid patients.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000The COVID pandemic has caused major changes in daily clinical practice, especially in areas such as Emergency. This has led to a temporary reduction and changes in the flow of patients to the emergency room, with implications also for emergency surgical activities.","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42846004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva chirurgicaPub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08577-6
Dechao Feng, Zhenghao Wang, Yubo Yang, Ao Li, Wuran Wei
{"title":"Ultrasound-guided technique versus ultrasound with nerve stimulation technique for obturator nerve block in transurethral resection of bladder tumors under spinal anesthesia: a meta-analysis.","authors":"Dechao Feng, Zhenghao Wang, Yubo Yang, Ao Li, Wuran Wei","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08577-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4733.20.08577-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18714,"journal":{"name":"Minerva chirurgica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44936108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}