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    Overall quality and oxidative damage in packaged freshly shelled walnut kernels during cold storage

    In this study, the effect of passive- and active-modified atmosphere packaging (PMA and MAP with 70% N2 and 30% CO2) using semipermeable and barrier films on physicochemical and enzymatic properties and quality o...

    Giuseppina Adiletta, Anna Magri in Journal of Food Measurement and Characteri… (2020)

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    Present and Future of EBM in Inguinal Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

    Evidence-based medicine (EBM) means the adequate use of current, best scientific evidences in the process of decision-making about treatment of patients. In 2009, the European Hernia Society published the firs...

    Umberto Bracale, Giovanni Merola, Cesare Stabilini, Maurizio Sodo in Abdominal Wall Surgery (2019)

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    Lack of advantages of slit mesh placement during laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair (TAPP): a single centre, case matched study

    During laparoscopic trans-abdominal pre-peritoneal hernia repair (TAPP) the positioning of the mesh around the spermatic cord could provide an additional anchoring point and ensure better defect closure, there...

    Umberto Bracale, Jacopo Andreuccetti, Maurizio Sodo, Giovanni Merola in BMC Surgery (2018)

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    Laparoscopic treatment of abdominal unicentric castleman’s disease: a case report and literature review

    Castleman’s disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology that most commonly presents as a mediastinal nodal mass. It is exceptionally uncommon for Castleman’s disease to present in the me...

    Umberto Bracale, Francesco Pacelli, Marco Milone, Umberto Marcello Bracale in BMC Surgery (2017)

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    Simultaneous abdominal wall defect repair and Tenckhoff catheter placement in candidates for peritoneal dialysis

    The presence of pre-existing abdominal wall defect (AWD) could represent a potential contraindication for peritoneal dialysis (PD) treatment. We report the results of our 6-year experience involving simultaneo...

    Maurizio Sodo, Umberto Bracale, Gennaro Argentino, Giovanni Merola in Journal of Nephrology (2016)

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    Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Select the Surgical Approach in Hernia Repair: Laparoscopic (TAPP) versus Open Surgery

    Selecting the most appropriate surgical approach may requires multidimensional analysis, prioritizing factors spanning from the clinical dimension to the economic one. Multicriteria decision analysis may suppo...

    Leandro Pecchia, Giovanni Merola in 6th European Conference of the Internation… (2015)