[Diagnostic and therapeutic considerations in early gastric cancer]

A ten-year series of early gastric cancer is reported, stress being laid on the diagnostic and therapeutic problems associated with the condition. The importance of intensified mass screening programmes, particularly in populations at risk, is underlined to enable these potentially dangerous conditions to be treated in time.

[Retroperitoneal neurilemmoma (anatomo-pathologic and clinical considerations)]

After extensively reviewing the literature on primary retroperitoneal tumours, the authors present a case of retroperitoneal neurilemmoma. They stress the rareness of this disease and go on to discuss the related epidemiological, histogenetic and anatomo-pathological problems. Finally, they deal at some length with the symptoms of the disease and the diagnostic strategy they adopt, emphasizing the usefulness of CT and ultrasonic tomography in the study of the retroperitoneal region.

[A case of spontaneous hematoma of the rectus abdominis muscle]

The authors describe a recently observed case of spontaneous hematoma of the abdominal rectus muscle. They go on from there to a thorough examination of this rare condition in the light of the latest contributions on the subject in the literature. After describing the anatomo-pathological, aetiopathogenetic and clinical aspects of the condition, the authors deal at some length with the diagnostic possibilities afforded by ultrasound in particular and with the indications for conservative therapeutic treatment, surgery being resorted to only in complicated cases or in cases where diagnostic doubts persist.

[Clinical comments on a case of retroperitoneal lipoma]

The authors show a case of retroperitoneal lipoma, histologically ascertained; they state its origin and the clinical features, and analyse the different diagnostical methods, particularly dwelling upon urography, TC and selective arteriography. They, at last, point out such pathology, although benign, is burdened by a high risk of relapses and by the possibility to turn into malignant. As a conclusion, they assert the importance of the radicalness of the intervention, joined to bioptic drawings in different parts of the tumor extirpated, with the purpose to identify, as precociously as possible, an eventual malignant degeneration of the same lipoma.