Acute calculus cholecystitis is a very common disease with several area of uncertainty. The
World Society of Emergency Surgery developed extensive guidelines in order to cover grey …

Hemodynamically Unstable Pelvic Trauma is a major problem in blunt traumatic injury. No
cosensus has been reached in literature on the optimal treatment of this condition. We present …

Background and Purpose Approximately 20% of melanoma patients harbor metastases in
non-sentinel nodes (NSNs) after a positive sentinel node biopsy (SNB), and recent evidence …

Purpose We investigated whether the nonsentinel lymph node (NSLN) status in patients
with melanoma improves the prognostic accuracy of common staging features; then we …

Background The 7th edition of the TNM American Joint Committee on Cancer classification
incorporates mitotic rate (MR) only for primary cutaneous melanoma (PCM) with Breslow …

Importance Although the number of excised lymph nodes (LNs) represents a quality assurance
measure in lymphadenectomy for many solid tumors, the minimum number of LNs to be …

Heterogeneity of patients affected by acute cholecystitis, and their co-morbidities make very
difficult to standardize the therapy for this very common condition. The staging system …

Background Self-inflicted injuries represent a consistent cause of trauma and falls from
heights (FFH) represent a common dynamic used for suicidal attempts. The aim of the current …

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on Breslow thickness,
disease-free survival, and overall survival in patients with stage I-II primary cutaneous …

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is currently delivered after cytoreductive
surgery in patients with several kinds of peritoneal surface malignancies. Different methods …