Publications

first bleeding episode from oesophageal varices in cirrhotic patients: a prospective study of endoscopic predictive factors.	two hundred patients affected by liver cirrhosis and oesophageal varices were studied in 9 gastrointestinal units in lombardy (northern italy) in order to assess factors possibly related to variceal bleeding. only patients without any previous episode of gastrointestinal bleeding were included in the prospective evaluation. for each patient demographic data, aetiology of cirrhosis, various clinical and biochemical parameters able to group patients into the three child-pugh classes, endoscopic it ...	1995	8563003
incidence and clinical features of acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy in lombardy, italy, 1996.	to assess the annual incidence of typical guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) and its main variants (atypical gbs) in a well-defined population from a large area.	2004	15242417
microscopic differential cell counting to identify inflammatory reactions in dairy cow quarter milk samples.	the diagnosis of intramammary infections is mostly based on somatic cell count (scc) and bacteriological analysis. as an alternative, differential cell counting (dcc) could be a useful method, because it identifies changes in the relative cell populations before the increase in total cell number occurs. the aim of the study was to identify cytological parameters that could be used in the field to classify mammary quarters as healthy or diseased, comparing cyto-bacteriological results with dcc. o ...	2012	22818454