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During 12 consecutive months, 680 patients with recent pelvic symptoms were examined with ultrasonography (US). In 44 patients we found evidence of intestinal disease; 19 of them exhibited pelvic complications--11 pelvic abscesses, 3 enterovesical fistulas, 2 enterovaginal fistulas and 1 enterovesicle fistula; in 11 cases the inflammation spread to the surrounding organs. Of these 19 patients, 8 had an intestinal disease in their case history, whereas symptom onset was recent in the other 11 patients. In the latter group US yielded the first diagnostic information showing a bowel disease and other diagnostic examinations with different techniques were therefore performed. In 15 patients US indicated which type of bowel disease had caused the pelvic complications, while in 4 patients US showed a bowel disease without differentiating diverticular disease from neoplasms. In all patients US results were compared with X-ray and CT findings. In 17 patients the diagnoses were confirmed at surgery. The results we obtained from this study indicate US as an accurate method to detect not only the various pelvic conditions but also to differentiate pelvic complications of intestinal conditions from diseases originating in the pelvic organs.

Obiettivo della ricerca è stato l’analisi di alcuni elementi architettonici di significativo interesse storico e culturale nell’ambito di un’attività di rilievo e di un’indagine morfologica per la salvaguardia del patrimonio. In particolare l’architettura analizzata è stata Palazzo Fortuny a Venezia, opera della fine del XV secolo, ricca di apparati decorativi realizzati principalmente in pietra d’Istria. Tra questi sono stati individuati alcuni particolari che, per la loro forma e configurazione, sono risultati essere di grande interesse per la sperimentazione. L’impiego delle nuove tecnologie di rilievo, quali varie tipologie di scanner 3D e il relativo trattamento dei dati stereometrici, ha consentito di ottenere modelli tridimensionali con un elevato grado di accuratezza tali da poter essere trasformati in repliche solide, mantenendo inalterate le proprietà geometriche. The aim of this research was to analyze some architectural elements of particular historical and cultural interest during a survey activity and a morphological investigation for heritage conservation. In particular, the architecture analyzed was Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, built in the late fifteenth century, full of decorative elements made mainly with Istrian stone. Among these we have identified some details which, for their shape and configuration, have proved to be particularly interesting for this experimentation. The use of new survey technologies, such as several types of 3D scanners and the relative treatment of stereometrics data, has allowed to obtain three-dimensional models with a high level of accuracy to be processed and transformed in solid copies, maintaining the same geometric properties.