The AA. examined 24 subjects suffering from classic or common migraine and 42 subjects with complicated migraine. In 6 cases of complicated migraine, radiologic investigations (cerebral CT scan or scintigraphy) showed ischemic lesions. The AA. discuss their results, on the basis of the most recent acquisitions concerning the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in the complicated migraine; particularly, they dwell upon "the platelet hypothesis".

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[Surgical therapy of adamantinomas].

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[The complications and outcomes of fractures of the orbital-maxillary-zygomatic complex].

Thirty-three cases of complicated zygomatic-maxillary complex fractures and their complications and sequelae are analysed. Permanent alterations in infraorbital nerve sensitivity (4 cases), amaurosis caused by enucleation of globus (2 cases), diplopia recovered in sixteen cases without treatment and after operation in two cases, ectropion (1 case), subcutaneous emphysema (1 case), scars (3 cases) have been surveyed.

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Conservation surgery for breast cancer.

Advances in early diagnosis of breast cancer have allowed most patients to come to treatment at an early stage (in the US in 1993, 75% of cases were stage I-II). In these cases, conservation surgery has played in the last two decades the role of first choice thearpy following randomized studies which definitely showed the same safety and effectiveness as compared to conventional mastectomy. In time, indications for breast conservation therapy underwent modifications as for the size and site of primary tumor, and the presence of concomitant metastases to ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes. Absolute contraindications are still a multicentric diseases, and the presence of diffuse microcalcifications, while tumors over 3 cm in diameter may be amenable to conservation therapy with primary chemotherapy, retroareolar tumors can be resected with central quadrantectomy and clinically evident axillary metastases do not influence local treatment. There are still open problems as for the extent of peritumoral parenchymal excision, indications for complementary radiotherapy and axillary lymphadenectomy.

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