CARUANA , Giorgia

Advances in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery have allowed endoscopic surgical sympathicotomy to become a viable safe therapy for upper limb hyperhidrosis. We evaluated if and how this procedure improves the quality of life in patients after a mean follow-up of 9.5 years.

Background: Literature from the last decade has shown a correlation between resection of the forehead and/or occipital muscles and relief from migraine headaches. Methods: The study cohort was 13 patients presenting with well-defined occipital nerve-triggered headaches unresponsive to conservative treatment. We undertook a modified version of...

Background: limitations of hair restoration procedures are the amount of hairs available and the invasiveness of follicular harvesting. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare conventional human micrografts and plucked hair follicles in an in vitro model in order to test hair growth rates for experimentally assessing the soundness of...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate a possible relationship between lunar cycles and haemorrhagic complication rate in surgery. Materials and methods: The possible relationship between moon phases and surgical outcome was tested by evaluating the haemorrhagic complication rate for 18,760 patients who underwent surgery between...