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Italian multicentric survey on laparoscopic spleen surgery in the pediatric population.

2007

Abstract Background: Some technical aspects of laparoscopic spleen surgery still are debated, although efforts have been made to standardize them. The position of the patient, the approach to the spleen, vessel identification and division, and spleen extraction can vary from center to center. Methods: This retrospective muticentric study led by the Societa` Italiana di Videochirurgia Infantile (SIVI) examined indications, surgical details, and complications of laparoscopic spleen surgery in the pediatric population during a 5-year period. Results: The study period from January 1999 to December 2003 (5 years) involved nine centers and included 85 patients with a mean age of 10 years (range, …

Laparoscopic surgeryMalemedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentmedicine.medical_treatmentSplenectomySpleenAdolescent Age Distribution Child Child; Preschool Data Collection Female Hematologic Diseases; complications/diagnosis Humans Incidence Intraoperative Complications; diagnosis/epidemiology Italy Laparoscopy; adverse effects/methods Male Pediatrics; methods Postoperative Complications; diagnosis/epidemiology Prognosis Retrospective Studies Risk Assessment Severity of Illness Index Sex Distribution Splenectomy; adverse effects/methods Splenic Diseases; diagnosis/etiology/surgery Survival AnalysisPediatricsRisk AssessmentSeverity of Illness IndexmethodsAge DistributionPostoperative ComplicationsmedicineHumansSex DistributionLaparoscopyChildPreschoolIntraoperative ComplicationsRetrospective StudiesSplenic Diseasesadverse effects/methodsmedicine.diagnostic_testdiagnosis/epidemiologybusiness.industryData CollectionIncidenceComplications — Fenestration — Laparoscopic splenectomy — Multicentric survey — Spleen —technical detailscomplications/diagnosismedicine.diseasePrognosisdiagnosis/etiology/surgeryHematologic DiseasesSurvival AnalysisEndoscopySurgerymedicine.anatomical_structureItalyChild PreschoolSplenectomySurgeryFemaleLaparoscopySplenic diseasebusinessComplicationAbdominal surgery
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Day care cataract surgery in Central and Southern Italy: a multicentric survey

2007

Abstract Background Cataract day surgery has rapidly gained worldwide acceptance, because the new surgical techniques and costs are generally lower than those involved in ordinary hospitalization. Cataract surgery serves as a proxy indicator of the trend towards day surgery hospitalization in Italy and, therefore, of regional variability in health-care delivery and cost. The aim of this study was to update the diffusion of cataract day surgery through various surgical ophthalmological centers in central and southern Italy during 2005. Methods A two-stage stratified cluster sampling method was used to draw a sample of Cataract Surgery Unit from Ophthalmic Units of central and southern Italy.…

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