81 research outputs found
Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoralism in Valcamonica high pastures
No full textThe high pastures of Vione, in the northern Valcamonica, have been exploited since many centuries by shepherds and people carring out many other activities. A systematic field survey, made by one of the authors in the summer 2017, has found out many structures, most of them probably linked to the pastoral activities. Fourty-seven buildings have been documented, put on a map thanks to the GIS technology and classified in different categories according to their dimensions, shapes and constructive techniques. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, data coming from different fields and sources (such as remote sensing, historical cartography, written sources, historical cadastres and place-names) has been combined - and processed with GIS spatial analysis - in order to understand the interaction between structures and territory; understand pastoral strategy and their changes through time; reconstruct the absolute or relative chronology of the structures; understand the relationship between pastoral structures and rock art. The paper will compare the northern Valcamonica situation emerging from this study with those of the two areas used as model for this research: Val di Sole (Trento) and Lessinia (Verona). Some remarks will be made also about the possible relationship between the analysed structures and Valcamonica graffiti
A redescription of Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi, 1913 (Diptera: Trypetidae).
No full textDie vorliegende Arbeit enthält eine ausführliche Nachbeschreibung von Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi, ES wird vermutet, daß Bezzi\u27s Holotypus, obgleich seine Beschreibung keine Angaben über das Geschlecht enthält, ein Männchen war, so daß hiermit die Neubeschreibung des Weibchens vorgelegt werden kann.Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi is redescribed in detail. It is suggested that although Bezzi in his original description made no mention of the sex,the holotype described by him was a male. The description of the female given by the present author may, therefore, be regarded as new
Archeologia delle alte quote sulla montagna veneta: la campagna di ricognizione di superficie 2019 a Recoaro Terme (Vicenza)
No full textIn this paper we present the preliminary results of the 2019 field survey conducted in the framework of the project “Beyond the border. Study and enhancement of the highlands between Veneto and Trentino”. The aim of this overarching project, which applies a multidisciplinary approach, is threefold: to detect in this mountain landscape the main activity areas and reconstruct possible connections between them; to analyse the long-term relationships between Trentino and Prealpine Veneto from prehistory to the present day; and to study the evolving function of this frontier area during periods of conflict/interaction. Several methods were employed to shed light on the above-mentioned research aims: field-walking survey, analysis of aerial photos, ethnographic and archival research, GIS-based landscape analysis and predictive modelling, and LiDAR data for feature detection in wooded areas. The combined use of all these approaches allowed us to identify long-term exploitation activities, which are documented also by both the ethnographic and archaeological data. The major periods of conflict in these areas are also highlighted in the archaeological record. The 2019-survey campaign opens up new research directions such as the future excavation of Bronze Age occupation zones; network and connectivity analysis between Prealpine Veneto and Trentino; hillforts and their interaction with the highlands
Nell'officina di un reporter di fine Ottocento: gli appunti di viaggio di Edmondo De Amicis
No full textScrittura in continua oscillazione tra codice soggettivo e oggettivo, le note di viaggio
sembrano configurarsi per natura come un 'apografo' dell'esperienza. Se, poi, il loro autore si
avvicina ad esse in veste di inviato speciale, sempre in parten2a su richiesta del lettore o
dell'editore, il loro rapporto con il vissuto del viaggio è destinato ad assumere caratteri ancor più complessi e stratificati.
Da questo punto di vista, la ricerca che abbiamo condotto su alcuni dei quaderni di appunti
di Edmondo De Amicis viaggiatore e reporter sembrano fornire significative chiavi di lettura per
comprendere procedimenti e motivazioni di questo genere di testi.
Le nostre indagini si sono svolte principalmente nelle Biblioteche Civiche e Nazionali di
Venezia, Torino e Firenze dove si sono rinvenuti oltre ai riferimenti teorici, metodologici e
archivistici della tesi, numerosi autografi, prime edizioni di opere e diversi carteggi. Le visite più assidue, però, sono state compiute presso la Biblioteca Civica «Leonardo Lagorio» di Imperia che, conservando un Fondo interamente dedicato allo scrittore, si è confermato il luogo più adatto per una ricerca che mirasse ad esplorare i vari livelli di scrittura con cui l'autore ha dovuto
confrontarsi nell'elaborazione dei suoi reportages.
Dei quaderni qui selezionati per l'analisi abbiamo descritto e trascritto parzialmente Ms.
E.D.A. 18 e 20, dedicati al viaggio in Marocco (1875), Ms. E.D.A. 19 e 21 utili ad una
ricostruzione del soggiorno argentino del 1884; ad essi appare cronologicamente e strutturalmente
legato Ms. E.D.A. 26, contenente note stilate durante il viaggio in piroscafo verso il Sud
America, da cui poi De Amicis trasse le pagine de Sull'Oceano (Milano, Treves, 1889). Distinto da
essi per finalità e scrittura appare Ms. E.D.A. 3 (Note per La Carrozza di tutti), fascicolo di appunti rappresentanti una fase già successiva della scrittura di "diario", utilizzati per il romanzo-reportage La carrozza di tutti (Milano, Treves, 1899).
Tali autografi sono stati scelti tra gli altri come i più rappresentativi dei processi di
creazione e di evoluzione della scrittura di viaggio deamicisiana, letta come cartina di tornasole di alcune delle principali modalità di realizzazione del genere del reportage in un periodo, quale
l'ultimo trentennio del secolo XIX, in cui esso realizzò un rilevante sviluppo storico e letterario.
A sottolineare tale prospettiva abbiamo ritenuto opportuno allegare io appendice un catalogo dei libri di viaggio letti da De Amicis, attualmente conservati presso lo Studio De Amicis ad Imperia-Porto Maurizio, con una breve premessa sul rapporto dell'autore con le fonti.
L'esperienza si è rivelata un interessante itinerario attraverso le letture dello scrittore ligure,
nell'esplorazione delle chiose che egli usava apporre a margine, oltre che nella produzione del
genere tra la fine del XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo.
La descrizione, la datazione e la trascrizione delle carte selezionate si accompagnano nella
tesi ad un esame della genesi delle scelte stilistiche nel confronto delle note autografe con l'opera a stampa, di cui vengono riportati a pié di pagina campioni significativi e ricorrenti quando funzionali all'indagine sul testo. Tale corpo analitico è stato inserito tra una presentazione di carattere teorico-descrittivo dei quaderni di viaggio valutati nel contesto della situazione complessiva del Fondo «De Amicis» e un capitolo conclusivo di osservazioni sulla scrittura di viaggio dell'autore con riferimento al processo compositivo della sua opera narrativa e saggistica.
La lettura delle note ha consentito di evidenziare differenze e somiglianze strutturali dei
quaderni e delle opere e, insieme, di misurare un progressivo spostamento ideologico e narratologico
spesso corrispondente, se non talvolta coincidente, a quello rilevabile nella lettura dei testi a stampa.
Nella totalità dei casi analizzati, l'autore procede ad un'annotazione aneddotica degli eventi,
raccoglie in forma diretta exempla di conversazione ai quali appone varianti e correzioni, seleziona
accuratamente gli argomenti, il loro ordine e la loro frequenza: tale forma, che egli restituisce
nell'opera compiuta, rivela un'inclinazione crescente a preordinare il modello dell'esperienza e la
preoccupazione costante di mantenere alta l'attenzione del pubblico ricorrendo a toni conversevoli
anche alle pagine più didattico-divulgative.
Evidenziare il processo di costruzione del testo e di emissione del messaggio all'interno del
laboratorio dello scrittore, nella continua oscillazione tra scrittura intima e scrittura pubblica
imposta dalla natura stessa delle note, ci è sembrata una strada opportuna a chiarire i nodi della
ricezione dell'opera deamicisiana, a scoprire le dimensioni dell'intenzionalità ed una più nitida
considerazione del suo esito letterario anche in rapporto al pubblico dei lettori.
Si è potuto, infine, per questa via accertare come la scrittura di De Amicis risulti collocarsi
all'incrocio tra un nuovo interesse per soggetti di carattere sociale ed una nuova attenzione
stilistica e costruttiva del testo che condurrà in ambito italiano ad un rinnovamento del genere del
reportage destinato a vedere un ricco stuolo di seguaci divisi tra una scrittura sempre più incline
all'aneddoto e al frammento lirico, definita di sapore "pre-rondista", da un lato, ed una più incline al sociale, promossa dal reportage d'inchiesta, dall'altro, secondo modalità che si riveleranno fertili sin dentro e oltre il secolo XX.
L'indagine che abbiamo svolto si colloca tra filologia e analisi del testo, nell'idea che
attingere dall'unione di queste discipline possa rivelarsi criticamente proficuo nello studio di testi come quelli rappresentati dai quaderni deamicisiani. Raccolte di note e appunti preliminari,
anteriori all'esistenza dell'opera letteraria compiuta si possono, a nostro avviso, rivelare utili sia ad una lettura diacronica, nel rapporto con il testo definitivo destinato alla pubblicazione, sia ad una lettura sincronica nella considerazione autonoma della loro composizione. A tali scopi i quaderni esaminati si prestano efficacemente, anche per la natura delle opere che ne derivano, di cui tali autografi rappresentano una sorta di officina, a volte fumosa e rumorosa, nella quale, osservando strumenti e processi in atto, diventa possibile seguire la costruzione in fieri del testo.
Travel notes are a way of writing that always alternates between a subjective and an
objective code and is by nature 'apograph' of the experience. If their writer approaches them as a
reporter whose travel begins for the reader's or the editor's request then the borders of this
sort of writing show more complex characteristics.
From this point of view Edmondo De Amicis' experience as a traveller and reporter seems to offer some interesting clues for this genre.
The research about some notebooks written by De Amicis has been carried on at Florence, Turin and Venice Civic and National Libraries but mainly at the Civic Library of Imperia called «Leonardo Lagorio», where an archive entirely dedicated to the Italian writer is preserved. The Archive has been the most suitable place to inquire the different levels of writing which De Amicis had to explore creating his travel reportages.
After an exam of the history and of the validity of the autographs, we have proceeded to the analysis of some selected manuscripts of the Archive. Among the notebooks conserved at Imperia we have studied and partially transcribed Ms. E.D.A 18 and 20 dedicated to the travel to Morocco (1875) and Ms. E.D.A. 19 and 21, that deal with the travel to Argentina (1884); linked with them, another notebook, Ms. E.D.A. 26, which contains notes about the journey in a steamboat toward South America, which inspired the pages of his On the Ocean (Milan, Treves, 1889). Different for finalities and kind of writing is Ms. E.D.A. 3 (Note per La Carrozza di tutti), a series of notes representing a phase of writing that follows the 'diary book'.
These autographs have been chosen because they better represent how De Amicis created and developed his travel reportages, and are a significant example of reportage techniques, a genre that reached an important literary and historical development in the last thirty years of 19th century.
It has also been useful, to stress this perspective, to enclose in the Appendix a catalogue of
travel books kept in the personal library of the author, today at Centro Polivalente at Porto
Maurizio-Imperia, with a short introduction about the relationship between the Italian writer and
his sources. The experience has been an useful journey through the writer's readings, through the
notes he used to write on their margins and through the production of travel books between the
end of 19th century and the 20th century.
The description and the dates of the hand-written and printed works and the transcription of the selected papers go together with an analysis of the stylistic and linguistic choices and their evolution, through a comparison of the notes with the printed work. At the bottom of the page are registered some significant and recurring examples from the volume. This analytical part has been inserted between a theoretical and descriptive part about the notebooks of the archive and a conclusive chapter about the author's travel writing techniques in the context of his entire literary production.
The reading of the notes has shown structure differences and similarities with the printed works and how their stylistic and ideological evolution often corresponds and sometimes coincides.
In the examples registered, the author usually retells the events in an anecdotal way he rarely prefers to describe them ; he reports in the direct form some conversations, that he often corrects on the pages of the manuscripts; he carefully selects the subjects, their order and frequency, revealing an inclination to prearranged patterns of experience. The anecdotes and the reporting of direct speeches allow him to avoid the tendency to write an 'essay', and to maintain high the reader's attention, keeping talkative tones also in didactic pages.
The analysis of text structuring and of emission of the message in the writer's workshop, that alternates between intimate and public writing imposed by the nature of the notes, helped to enlighten the keys of the reception of De Amicis' production, to discover its intentions, and to
consider the literary results also referring to the editorial market and the readers.
De Amicis's writing lies between a new interest in social subjects and a new stylistic and structural attention to the text which will have some important consequences in renovating the
reportage technique in the Italian literature. In the 20th century the genre will develop on one side to the anecdote and the lyrical fragment and on the other to the social enquiry.
The research shifts between philology and text analysis, with the persuasion that an interdisciplinary study could be efficacious for this kind of texts. Notes and journals that precede
the printed work appear a diachronically and synchronically productive reading, establishing a
relationship between notes and the accomplished text on one side and an autonomous reading of
the handwriting on the other. For this aim the selected texts reveal proceedings, instruments and
the birth of the work
Clinotaenia angusticeps Bezzi 1923, comb.nov.
No full text<i>Clinotaenia angusticeps</i> (Bezzi, 1923) comb.nov. <p> <i>Carpophthoromyia angusticeps</i> Bezzi, 1923: 525.</p> <p> <i>Carpophthoromyia angusticeps</i> Bezzi, 1924: 97. Preocc. Bezzi 1923.</p> <p> Study of the female holotype in the collection of the MNHN, showed that this species does not belong to <i>Carpophthoromyia</i>. Despite the vague resemblance of wing banding with some representatives of <i>Carpophthoromyia</i>, it lacks the other characteristic features such as the white flattened scutellum (swollen and completely black in <i>C</i>. <i>angusticeps</i>), transverse bands on mesonotum (shining black­brown with dispersed black setulae in <i>C. angusticeps</i>) and the rounded or slightly flattened female aculeus (very broad and blade like in <i>C. angusticeps</i>). Especially the shape of the aculeus tip indicated that this is a gastrozonine. It fits within the generic concept of <i>Clinotaenia</i> as described by Hancock (1999) to which also <i>C. superba</i> (Bezzi) was recently transferred from <i>Carpophthoromyia</i> by the same author (Hancock, 1999). It differs from the latter by the shape of the female aculeus (trilobed in <i>superba</i>, pointed in <i>angusticeps</i>) and the base of the wing being completely brown (hyaline with brown patches in <i>superba</i>). Study of unidentified material that was previously sorted to <i>Carpophthoromyia</i> revealed two male specimens that are identical with the female holotype.</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>Holotype Ψ: CHAD, Dar Banda, Ndellé, 1904, A. Chevalier, Mission Chari­Tchad (MNHN).</p> <p>Other material examined:</p> <p>BURUNDI: 1ɗ, Rumonge, April 1948, « sur plage sablonneuse et broussailles près du Lac », F. François (KBIN). CONGO (D.R.): 1ɗ, Parc National de Garamba, Mt Embe, 19.IV.1952, H. De Saeger 3341 (KMMA).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burundi, Chad, Congo (D.R.).</p>Published as part of <i>Meyer, Marc De, 2006, Systematic revision of the fruit fly genus Carpophthoromyia Austen (Diptera, Tephritidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 1235</i> on pages 36-37, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/172780">10.5281/zenodo.172780</a>
Apalocnemis cingulata Bezzi
No full text<i>Apalocnemis cingulata</i> Bezzi <p>(Figs. 1–14)</p> <p> <i>Apalocnemis cingulata</i> Bezzi, 1909: 383, fig. 9; Melander, 1928: 101 (checklist); Collin, 1933: 76 (citation); Smith, 1967: 28 (catalogue); Yang <i>et al</i>. 2007: 448 (catalogue).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b>. Male specimen holoptic; ocellar triangle protruding; upper half of postcranium with no occipital setae, lower half with many stout setae. Pedicel with stout setae; postpedicel short; stylus thickened, longer than basal segments combined. Proboscis short, retracted within open mouth, almost hidden, upward-curved. All thoracic setae stout; katepisternum glabrous. Abdominal tergites with wide band of grey pruinescence across posterior margin. Cell r4 narrow. Postgonite slender and finger-like.</p> <p> <b>Re-description</b>. Lectotype male. Body 3.9 mm, wing 4.3 mm. Head (Fig. 1) holoptic on frons. Upper ommatidia slightly larger. Ocellar tubercle dark brown, matt velvety, protruding, with 4 long slender setae. Small triangle of frons above antennae brown. Face short, wide, glabrous, grey pruinose. Proboscis with no sclerotized areas, small, brown, partially retracted within open mouth. Palpus yellow, small, porrect, spatuliform, with few short apical setae. Postcranium dark brown to black, matt velvety, with grey-brown pruinescence; postocular setae long, proclinate over eyes; vertical setae subequal to adjacent postocular ones; upper half of postcranium with no occipital setae and lower half with many black stout setae (Fig. 1). Gena with setae slightly more slender and lighter than on lower postcranium, rather upward-curved. Postgena with row of stout setae, ventral setae slender. Antenna dark brown to black, matt velvety; pedicel with stout setae, some on outer face notably longer; postpedicel small, semicircular, almost 1.5X longer than scape and pedicel combined; stylus thick, elongated, slightly longer than basal segments.</p> <p> Thorax (Figs. 2–3). Scutum dark brown to black; matt velvety with grey-brown pruinescence in certain perspectives, denser on anterior region, along dorsocentral row of setae, on posterior region, and laterally. Mesopleuron grey pruinose but anepisternum brown pruinose in certain views. Postpronotal lobe and postalar callus yellowish. Chaetotaxy: about 15 uniserial antepronotals; 9–10 postpronotals; 0 proepisternal; about 15 proepimerals arranged in upward-curved tuft; 9 <b>–</b> 10 uniserial acrostichals; 13 uniserial dorsocentrals arranged in complete row, posterior setae longer; 3 presutural supra-alars; 7 postsutural supra-alars curved anteriorly just behind transverse suture, first three setae of this row may belong to postsutural intra-alar row; around 17 notopleurals; 3 postalars and 7 scutellars subparallel-sided.</p> <p> Legs (Figs. 4 <b>–</b> 6). Subshining; coxae, trochanter and femora brown, except extreme distal portion of femora yellow; tibiae and basal tarsomeres yellow, distal tarsomeres darker; grey pruinescence more distinct on coxae, trochanter and femora. All coxae with longer setae on anterior face; still longer setae on all femora anteroventrally and posteroventrally, fore femur posterodorsally and hind femur anterodorsally; dorsal setae slightly shorter. Tibiae with short setae; mid tibia with 2 subapical setae slightly stouter, 1 anteroventral and 1 posteroventral. All tarsi longer than respective tibiae.</p> <p>Wing (Fig. 14). Hyaline with brown veins. Costal vein with slightly longer setae at base (rather inconspicuous in figure); Sc almost complete; R1 lacking setae; pterostigma light brown; cell r4 narrow; A1 evanescent distally. Alula yellow with paler setae. Halter yellow.</p> <p>Abdomen (Fig. 7). Dark brown to black, matt velvety. Tergites with band of grey pruinescence across posterior margin and with slender and long setae, the lateral and posterior setae notably longer. Sternites concolorous with tergites, each with grey pruinescence across posterior margin but narrower and less distinct than on tergites. Tergite 8 narrower than sternite 8 (Fig. 10).</p> <p> Terminalia (Figs. 8 <b>–</b> 13). Concolorous with preabdomen tergites, except epandrium yellow; small, dorsally directed, not keel-shaped. Epandrium (Fig. 11) with long curved process and pair of stout setae medially. Cercus slightly shorter than surstylus. Postgonite distinct, elongate with small denticles subapically. Phallus (Figs. 12, 13) rather complex, with two hat-shaped subapical expansions. Ejaculatory apodeme (Fig. 12) plate-like.</p> <p>Female specimen not examined. Originally described as: “eyes dichoptic; terminalia black, ventrally yellow, robust with yellow spines distally; femora yellow, except brown medially”.</p> <p> <b>Geographic distribution</b>. Peru, Bolivia.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b>. <b>LECTOTYPE</b> ɗ (here designated), “ PERU [Cuzco], Sicuani, 17.vi.1903 [3500 m]” (SMT).</p> <p> <b>Lectotype condition</b>. Right postpedicel lost. Right wing mounted on microslide. Terminalia in vial with glycerin.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>. This species was described based on four specimens from Peru and Bolivia. The single remaining specimen in Dresden has been labelled lectotype by the present author to fix and stabilize the current concept of the name.</p> <p> <b>Discussion</b>. Using the key of Collin (1933, p. 74), the male specimen of <i>A. cingulata</i> runs to “group D” with vein R1 bare, head holoptic and no “intrahumeral” setae. It does not fit any couplet of “group D”. It runs to couplet 17 by having more than four scutellar bristles but thereafter does not fit couplet 18 (two notopleurals) or couplet 21 (three strong notopleurals in a line) as it has about 17 notopleural bristles (see Fig. 3). Based on the figures in Collin (1933, fig. 15g, p. 78), <i>A. cingulata</i> has an antenna rather similar to <i>A. innocua</i> Collin, 1933 with a short and rather truncate postpedicel. It also appears to be closely related to <i>A. mediocris</i> Collin, 1933. When comparing both, they present similar antennal shape (except stylus is subapical in <i>A. mediocris</i> as in figs. 16g –h of Collin 1933, p. 82), a similar pattern of setae on postcranium, and similar terminalia shape (Collin 1933, figs. 16g –h, p. 82). The original description of <i>A. mediocris</i> differs from <i>A. cingulata</i> by the number of setae on notopleuron and scutellum, by the size and number of ocellar setae and some details in the coloration. Based on characters presented here <i>A. cingulata</i> is not conspecific with these two species.</p>Published as part of <i>Sinclair, Bradley J., 2012, Revision of Neotropical species of Empidoidea (Diptera) described by Mario Bezzi. X. The species described in Apalocnemis Philippi (Brachystomatidae, Trichopezinae), pp. 58-62 in Zootaxa 3270</i> on pages 59-61, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/280804">10.5281/zenodo.280804</a>
Je parcours la Terre. Un cammino con Montesquieu
No full textThis paper discusses the following volume: Domenico Felice, Introduzione a Montesquieu, Bologna, Clueb, 2013. The author examines not only the main works of the French philosopher like Lettres persanes or L’esprit des lois but also minor books which leads Montesquieu to develop a universal science of socio-political system
"Buon viaggio a te e adoperati efficacemente pel trionfo dell'Esposizione di Venezia!" Bartolomeo Bezzi e l'arte tedesca alla Biennale del 1899
No full textThis paper is a revised version of the second chapter of my PhD dissertation, discussed in 2014 at the University of Udine. The documentary support is provided by largely unpublished correspondence between Bartolomeo Bezzi, the "commissario speciale per l'invito alle opere di Germania e Austria" for the 1899 edition of the Biennale, and the general secretary of the Biennale Antonio Fradeletto, that has been traced by the author in the Historical Archives of Contemporary Art in Venice. This overview on the epistolary sheds new light on Bezzi's personal contribution and on the choices that he made during his trip to Germany, despite the absence of further evidence in the 1899 exhibition. Furthermore, it accurately documents the participation of the Austro-German secessionist artists who exercised a decisive influence on the cultural policy of the first Biennali, until then mostly dominated by instances of obscurantism and regression
Diagnostic accuracy of 3T magnetic resonance imaging in the preoperative localisation of parathyroid adenomas: comparison with ultrasound and 99mTc-sestamibi scans
No full textObjectives: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of 3TMRI in comparison with ultrasound (US) and 99mTc-sestamibi scan for presurgical localisation of parathyroid adenomas (PTAs) in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Methods: Fifty-seven patients affected by PHPT were prospectively enrolled and underwent US, 99mTc-sestamibi and 3TMRI. T2-weighted and post-contrast T1-weighted Iterative decomposition of water and fat with Echo Asymmetry and Least squares estimation (IDEAL) sequences were acquired. Diagnostic performance of US, 99mTc-sestamibi and MRI in localising PTAs to correct quadrant were compared according to surgical and pathological findings. Results: According to surgical findings, US correctly localised 41/46 PTAs (sensitivity of 89.1%; specificity 97.5%; PPV 93.1% and NPV 95.6%); 99mTc-sestamibi correctly localised 38/46 PTAs (sensitivity 83.6%, specificity 98.3%, PPV 95% and NPV 93.7%). US and 99mTc-sestamibi combined had a sensitivity of 93.4% (43/46 PTAs), specificity of 98.3%, PPV 95% and NPV 98.3%. MRI correctly localised 45/46 PTAs (sensitivity 97.8%; specificity 97.5%; PPV 93.7% and NPV 99.2%). MRI was able to detect six adenomas missed by 99mTc-sestamibi and two adenomas missed by US. MRI and US were able to detect all enlarged parathyroid glands in patients with multiglandular disease. MRI identified six of seven ectopic adenomas. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated high diagnostic performance of 3T MRI in the preoperative PTAs quadrant localisation, as well as in patients with multiglandular disease and ectopic PTAs. MRI may be preferred to adequately select patient candidates for minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP). Key Points: • PTA(s) quadrant localisation by 3TMRI was more accurate than US+99mTc-sestamibi.• MRI identified all enlarged glands in multiglandular disease similarly to US.• MRI identified 6/7 ectopic PTAs similarly to 99mTc-sestamibi.• Presurgical PTA(s) localisation by 3TMRI select the optimal candidates for MIP
Correction to: Balloon occluded TACE (B-TACE) vs DEM-TACE for HCC: a single center retrospective case control study
No full textFollowing publication of the original article, the authors identified an error in the author name of Stefania Brozzetti. • The incorrect author name is: Stefania Brozetti. • The correct author name is: Stefania Brozzetti. The author group has been updated above and the original article has been corrected.
Background:To compare oncological results and safety profile of balloon micro-catheter trans-arterial chemoembo-lization (b-TACE) and drug-eluting-microsphere (DEM-TACE) in patients with hepatocellular-carcinoma (HCC).Methods:This is a case–control, retrospective, single-center study. Between January-2015/March-2019, 149 patients (131 males [87.9%]) with 226 HCC were treated, 22 patients (35 HCC; 19 [86.4%] males) with b-TACE and 127 with DEM-TACE (191 HCC, 112 [88.2%] males). Embolization protocol was standardized (sequential 100 ± 25 and 200 ±25 μm microspheres). Results were evaluated by modified-response-evaluation-criteria-in-solid-tumor [mRE-CIST ] at 1, 3–6 and 9–12 months and time to recurrence after complete response [TTR] at 1 years. Cox’s regression weighted with tumor dimensions was performed. Adverse events (AEs) were recorded.Results:mRECIST oncological response at all time points (1, 3–6 and 9–12 months) for both treatments were similar, with the exception of Objective response rate at 9-12 months. Objective response at 1 and 3–6 months between b-TACE vs DEM-TACE [23/35 (65.7%) vs 119/191 (62.3%), 21/29 (72.4%) vs 78/136 (57.4%) (p > 0.05), respectively]. On the contrary, at 9–12 months, it was significantly higher in b-TACE subgroup than DEM-TACE (15/19 [78.9%] vs 48/89 [53.9%], p=0.05). TTR for complete response at 1 year had a better trend for b-TACE vs DEM-TACE (278.0 days [196.0–342.0] vs 219.0 days [161.0–238.0], OR 0.68 [0.4–1.0], p=0.10). The use of balloon micro-catheter reduced the relative risk of the event of recurrence by 0.63 [CI95% 0.38–1.04]; p=0.07). No significant differences were found in AEs rate.Conclusion:b-TACE showed a trend of better oncological response over DEM-TACE with and longer TTR with a simi-lar adverse events rate, in patients presenting with larger tumors
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