the MASTER at work

Tales from the Italian OR

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March 8th 2007
Ciao... Today I watched surgery on a pt with Arnold-Chiari I malformation (the posterior cranial fossa is too small to accomodate the cerebellum so it begins to herniate out of the foramen magnum) and associated severe syringomyelia. We may think it's rare, but at the institute, they see it quite frequently and perform a few of these surgeries per week. Also watching the surgery with me were ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more