Section I: Surgical Infections --;1 Infected pancreatic necrosis complicated by multiple organ failure --;2 Correlation between peri-operative blood transfusion and post-operative infective complication --;3 In vitro antimicrobial activities of? -lactams, Aminoglycosides, Quinolones, Glycopeptides and Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole against Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections --;4 Acute acalculous cholecystitis. Clinical and experimental remarks --;Section II: Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery --;5 Small diameter porta-caval shunt with ringed PTFE prosthesis for the treatment of portal hypertension --;6 Renal failure complicating obstructive jaundice. An updating --;7 Hepatolithiasis, cystic dilatation of bile ducts and the variable risk of cholangiocarcinoma. Re-evaluation of an old problem --;8 Biliary stent occlusion: a microbiological and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigation --;9 Cystic tumors of the pancreas: serous cystadenoma and mucinous cystic neoplasm --;Section III: Colo-Rectal Surgery --;10 A critical review of classification systems for colorectal cancer --;11 Standard surgery and adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer --;12 The follow-up in colorectal cancer --;13 Effect of peri-operative transfusion of whole blood Vs leucocyte-depleted blood on survival after curative surgery for colorectal cancer --;14 Radioimmunoguided surgery in colorectal carcinoma patients --;15 Immunobiological approach to colorectal cancer staging: biological markers, cellular 'in situ' immunological response and intranuclear DNA imaging analysis. Old and new parameters. Retrospective evaluation and prospective trials after a fifteen year experience --;Section IV: Minimally Invasive Surgery --;16 Minimally invasive surgery for esophageal diseases A. Peracchia, and R. Rosati --;17 Comparison between rectopexy by laparoscopy and laparotomy for complete rectal prolapse:clinical and functional results --;Section V: Transplantation --;18 Renal function in patients with orthotopic liver transplantation --;19 National survey of primary sclerosing cholangitis: an emergent indication for new therapeutic strategies --;20 Pancreatic islet cell transplantation --;Author index.
This book contains papers from a group of Italian academic surgeons that contributed to a national research program entitled `Progress in Abdominal Surgery'. The research was supported by the Italian Ministry of the University. The primary initiative of the group was to combine experimental and clinical approaches in the study of several surgical abdominal diseases. The authors of the single chapters were requested to present an update in their own field of research. This volume summarizes several important updates in abdominal surgery and pathophysiology. The contributions are grouped in five sections, namely: surgical infections, hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery, colo-rectal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and transplantation. This book on surgical research in Italy is therefore addressed to academic surgeons, or surgeons interested in research.