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A Monaco

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[Histopathological and therapeutical aspects of cervical lesions].

The term "cervical lesions" definies all the alterations consisting in a loss of hard dental tissues located along the cement-enamel junction, and may be more specifically defined as carious lesions (LCC) and non-carious lesions (NCCL). The non-carious cervical lesions are characterized by the loss of mineralised dental tissue in the absence of a carious process. This definition includes three different lesion categories: abrasion, erosion and the cervical lesions caused by stress (abfractions). In this paper the authors explain the histological, clinical, preventive findings of NCCL and try to give some guidelines to choose the appropriate material to restore different types of non carious cervical lesions.

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Local recurrence in breast cancer after conservative surgery: timing of radiotherapy and sequencing of chemotherapy.

BACKGROUND: A randomized trial was conducted to determine (a) the role of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on local control and (b) to determine the timing of radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Five hundred and ninety patients were treated with both conservative surgery and radiotherapy (group A). The average time interval between surgery and radiation was 90 days for 452 patients and over 90 days for 138 patients. One hundred and ninety-four patients underwent adjuvant therapy based on CMF regimens (group B). RESULTS: Among 396 patients of group A, 8.1% had local failure; we observed 7.2% local recurrences in 363 patients who received therapy before 90 days and 18.2% in patients who received therapy after 90 days. Among patients of group B, 7.7% had local failure; for patients who underwent radiotherapy before 90 days, the local recurrence rate was 6.6%, compared with 12.3% for patients who underwent therapy more than 90 days after surgery. CONCLUSION: In patients who are eligible to receive chemotherapy, it is possible to administer radiotherapy after systemic treatment, while in patients who have to be treated with radiotherapy more then 90 days after breast surgery, chemotherapy can reduce the local failure rate.

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[Computerized archives in surgery. Our experience].

In recent years, the necessity for a surgical department to obtain a wide range of clinical data in a short period is greatly increased. This necessity has been almost satisfied with widespread use of information systems in medicine using database programs and the integration of these database with other programs has allowed graphic representation of data. Anyhow, some difficulties are still present, such as low knowledge in using personal computers and lacking of a common program for all surgical departments. In the article the authors present a computerized program for the filing of medical records in a surgical department. Starting from January 1992, clinical data of all patients admitted in our department have been recorded in the described program. After three years of use, the system has shown to be easy to use, and able to give useful information for data analysis regarding the population observed, the clinical activity performed and the level of quality obtained. For these reasons, it can represent an attempt to diffuse and uniform computerized data recording in surgical departments.

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