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A Montesi

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[Dynamic radiologic study of deglutition in oro-pharyngeal-laryngeal neoplasms and results of their treatment].

Swallowing disorders due to oro-pharyngo-laryngeal cancer, or due to the consequences of surgical resection and radiotherapy, should be accurately evaluated to manage properly both nutritional therapy and dysphagia rehabilitation techniques. The site, size, and local spread of such tumors and, especially, the nature and extent of surgical resection and reconstruction, are important factors which are closely related to the functional disorders of deglutition. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate video-fluoroscopy capability to evaluate the incidence, type, and severity of such functional disorders. For this purpose we studied by means of dynamic radiology 23 patients with oral cancer and 33 patients with pharyngeal-laryngeal cancer, most of them after surgical and/or radiological treatment. Eighty-four per cent of the patients had swallowing disorders such as poor oral processing (25%), retention of the bolus in the pharynx (41%), penetration (41%) or aspiration (37%) of the bolus in the airway, dysmotility of upper esophageal sphincter (9%), and structural lesions (61%). The association of these functional disorders was closely related to the pathological background of each patient. In conclusion, a dynamic radiological study is recommended for both pre and postoperative evaluation of these patients, to choose the appropriate nutritional therapy and dysphagia rehabilitation technique.

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[Ultrasonography in primary hepatic tumors: potentialities, limits and comparison with arteriography (author's transl)].

The echotomographic patterns in 22 patients with hepatic neoplasms are reported and discussed. Ultrasonography has a high sensitivity in detecting the solid echopattern of the tumour and its origin from liver parenchyma; gray-scale B-scan and a meticulous technique are very helpful for this purpose. Echotomography plays an important part in the diagnostic evaluation of this pathology, to better select the patients for more invasive techniques, after the screening procedures, as scintigraphy.

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[Diagnostic accuracy of double contrast examination in the detection of gastric polyps (author's transl)].

Gastric polyps have been found in 2.9% of 4322 consecutive routine double contrast examination of upper gastro-intestinal tract. In 559 patients, endoscopically verified, sensitivity of radiological test was 96% and specificity 96.3%. An agreement index (K-index) was evaluated in a sample of 84 cases. The index value was 0.9 among 2 different radiologists with a similar, high experience and 0.8 among 2 radiologists with different degree of experience in double contrast examination. Our results demonstrate the validity of the double contrast study of the stomach as preliminary to endoscopy.

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