Published online 30 August 2012 Ann. Ital. Chir., 84, 4, 2013 477 Pervenuto in Redazione Marzo 2012. Accettato per la pubblicazione Luglio 2012 Correspondence to: Prof. Luciano Izzo, General Surgery Unit, P. Valdoni Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Viale del Policlinico 150, 00161. Roma (e-mail: [email protected]) Roberto Fiori**, Luciano Izzo*, Annarita Forcione*, Antonio B...

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the pine wood nematode (PWN) which causes pine wilt disease, is currently a serious problem in East Asia, including in Japan, Korea, and China. This paper investigates the hyperspectral analysis of pine wilt disease to determine the optimal detection indices for measuring changes in the spectral reflectance characteristics and leaf reflectance in the Pinus thunbergii...

Performance of longleaf (Pinus palustris Mill.) and loblolly pine (P. taeda L.) were compared 15–19 years after outplanting on 10 different sites in the sandhills of South Carolina. The study was established from 1988 to 1992 with bareroot seedlings artificially inoculated with Pisolithus tinctorius (Pt) or naturally inoculated with mycorrhizae in the nursery. A containerized longleaf pine trea...

E8 J can chir, Vol. 52, N 1, février 2009 © 2009 Association médicale canadienne S chwannoma is a benign tumour arising from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerve sheath; histologic predominance of degenerative findings is typical of a rare variant, the “ancient” schwannoma. Retroperitoneal pelvic localization of these tumours is quite rare. Even more exceptional is development in the perineal ...

Aheadofprint 27 December 2011 (www.annitalchir.com) Ann. Ital. Chir., 83, 5, 2012 433 Pervenuto in Redazione Settembre 2011. Accettato per la pubblicazione Novembre 2011 Correspondence to: Giovanni Conzo, MD, Aggregate Professor of General Surgery, VII Division of General Surgery, Dipartimento di scienze Anestesiologiche, Chirurgiche e dell’Emergenza, Second University of Naples, Via Pansini 5,...

78 J can chir, Vol. 48, N 1, février 2005 © 2005 Canadian Medical Association S are often confronted with patients having life-threatening retroperitoneal hemorrhage from aneurysms of the abdominal aorta. However, several other conditions can mimic this, including hemorrhage into a tumour or tumour apoplexy. The following is a report of a spontaneous life-threatening hemorrhage of a retroperito...

Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) was once the main southern pine species found throughout the southeastern United States, encompassing approximately 38 million hectares (6). After nearly complete destruction of the longleaf pine ecosystem, restoration efforts in recent years have caused resurgence in the planting of longleaf pine on many state and federal lands (14). Many factors have signi...

Exotic tree pathogens can cause devastating ecological effects on forests that can be exacerbated when infections increase the likelihood of attack by insects. Current high rates of mortality of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) are due to white pine blister rust caused by the exotic fungus, Cronartium ribicola J.C. Fisch, and the native mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hop...

115 Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) was often associated with oaks (Quercus spp.) on upland sites in presettlement forests of the upper Great Lakes region, but widespread logging and subsequent fires in the late 1800s converted these upland sites to fire-tolerant oak forests. Although white pine regeneration is occurring in these second-growth oak forests, white pine regeneration patterns...

BACKGROUND Several cases of pine nut allergies and anaphylaxis have been reported in the literature, but only few pine nut allergens have been characterized. The aim of this research is to identify through immunoelectrophoretic techniques the major pine nut allergens in a group of children monosensitized to pine nuts. METHODS We studied five children with pine nut allergies and no other sensi...