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Piero Sraffa and His Books – a foreword to the Catalogue of his inimitable library
No full textThis foreword gives a preview of the sort of books Piero Sraffa collected, specifying the criteria that appear to have been used for the selection. The Author of this foreword is convinced that the discovery of these criteria may help to understand the basis of the type of history of economic thought that Piero Sraffa had in mind
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage and gynecomastia as first signs of metastatic testicular choriocarcinoma
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Endoscopic management of laryngo-tracheobronchial amyloidosis: A series of 32 patients.
No full textBetween June 1983 and December 2002, 32 patients were treated for primary localized laryngo-tracheobronchial amyloidosis (LTBA) at our institution. For enrollment in this retrospective study, at least one positive biopsy with Congo red stain and a diagnostic test battery excluding systemic or secondary amyloidosis were mandatory. The most common presenting symptom was dyspnea, which was observed in 75% of cases. Endoscopic appearance was described as submucosal plaques and nodules with a cobblestone appearance in 44% of patients, tumor-like in 28% and circumferential wall thickening in 28% of cases. Tracheobronchopatia osteochondroplastica was associated with LTBA in 22% of patients, both at the first treatment (four cases) or during follow-up examinations (three). Synchronous or metachronous disease in the larynx and tracheobronchial tree was observed in 47% of cases, while only one patient showed lung involvement with extensive amyloidosis of the trachea and bronchi. All but two patients were endoscopically treated. One of these was affected by a tracheal amyloidoma cured by endoscopic debulking and further tracheal resection-anastomosis. The other patient presented massive laryngo-pharyngeal involvement and was therefore treated by total laryngectomy. A total of 58 endoscopic procedures (range: 1-7; mean: two per patient) were carried out, 11 with CO2 laser (for supraglottic, glottic and selected subglottic lesions) and 47 with Nd:YAG laser (for the most part of subglottic lesions and amyloid deposits located in trachea and bronchi). Four patients required a tracheotomy and three necessitated a T-tube stent during management, which was subsequently removed in all cases. One patient was lost to follow-up, nine were endoscopically controlled elsewhere (Group A) and 22 were followed at our institution (Group B). In Group A, the patient with tracheal amyloidoma is asymptomatic and free of additional LTBA localizations 8 years after surgery. The remaining eight are asymptomatic, but with persistent endoscopic signs of amyloidosis. In Group B, five patients died: one from heart failure and another one from pneumonia 3 and 4 days after surgery, respectively. In one case death was from unrelated causes, and in the two remaining patients it was from respiratory failure due to uncontrolled bilateral bronchial amyloidosis in the subsequent 5 to 6 years. One patient is completely cured 5 years after surgery, and 16 are asymptomatic with persistence of LTBA
Idiopathic subglottic stenosis: Management by endoscopic and open-neck surgery in a series of 30 patients.
No full textWe describe our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic subglottic stenosis (ISS), a rare pathological entity involving the subglottic larynx and the first tracheal rings and affecting virtually only females. Its diagnosis can be made only after the exclusion of all other known causes of subglottic stenosis. In a 17-year period, between January 1986 and June 2002, 30 patients were admitted and treated for ISS at the Department of Otolaryngology and/or the Center for Respiratory Endoscopy and Laser Therapy, the University of Brescia, Italy. Clinical, endoscopic and surgical records were retrospectively analyzed with particular emphasis on treatment (endoscopic versus open-neck procedures) and follow-up. Based on our experience, we can define endoscopic treatment by carbon dioxide or Nd:YAG laser-assisted dilatation and scar tissue resection with or without airway stenting as the treatment of choice for the initial management of ISS. After repeated endoscopic failures, open-neck surgery by laryngoplasty or laryngotracheal resection and anastomosis is strongly recommended, particularly for complex lesions longer than 1 cm
Piero Vignozzi, o dell'impronta residua
No full textThe author considers the tendency in the d'après by Piero Vignozzi to elide elements of well-known works by old masters, and concludes that we are seeing a reflection of Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing
Esserci e temporalità ne «La figlia di Babilonia» di Piero Bigongiari
No full textBeing there and temporality in La figlia di Babilonia of Piero Bigongiari · In this paper the author takes on Piero Bigongiari’s book of poetry La figlia di Babilonia (1942) by means of the categories of being-there and temporality by Martin Heidegger. Through an analysis of the Tuscan poet’s essays and interviews and foremost through the most important texts of this book poetry, the author shows how hermetic poetic is deeply rooted in the diffusion of German existentialism in Ital
Il Ponte di Piero Calamandrei
No full textThe paper traces the history of the journal Il Ponte, founded by Piero Calamandrei in April 1945, in order to capture the ideal roots of this audacious publishing initiative. The Author focuses on the liberal-socialist vocation of the journal and on the ideals of European federalism that led Calamandrei to oppose the Atlantic Pact. Lastly, he delves into the commitment of the Florentine jurist in support of the Constitution, democracy and the Welfare State
Oratione di m. Piero Vettori in lode di Massimiliano ij. imperadore, morto : recitata nella chiesa di San Lorenzo, il di xij. di nouembre, M D LXXVI /
No full textT.p. woodcut with Medici arms impaling Austria. Two historiated initials.Mode of access: Internet.At upper left-hand corner of front pastedown is bookplate of Giacomo Manzoni (Gelli 636).Binding: 19th-century pebble-grained red cloth. Red goatskin spine with author, title, and imprint in gilt. Leaves numbered 206-217 in black ink at upper right-hand corner of rectos, implying that the work was formerly bound as part of a larger vol
Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar, Exploring his Unpublished Papers
No full textThis book is the result of combining two special issues on Piero Sraffa by The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy.
Piero Sraffa was a leading intellectual of the 20th century, author of one of the most often cited books in economics and editor of David Ricardo's Works and Correspondence.
[Paperback edition availbale 2009
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