Ricerc@Sapienza

Medical device (MD) nomenclatures are essential for
market surveillance and vigilance activities. Currently, more
than 25 arthroplasty Registries are established in Europe, each of
them based on a different MD nomenclature. A common and
shared nomenclature of orthopaedic implants is important to
analyse implant performance across different national databases
referring to a unique definition of its characteristics. Aim of this
study is to describe an approach to compare and harmonise two

The aim of this study is to define the role of preoperative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan and sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for nodal metastasis detection in Endometrial Cancer (EC) patients. From January 2014 to August 2016 patients affected by EC scheduled for surgery underwent PET/CT scan and SLN mapping with indocyanine-green. Patients with suspicious lymph nodes at FDG-PET/CT underwent selective pelvic lymphadenectomy. In case of undetectable SLN, no further lymphadenectomy was performed if PET/CT scan was negative.

The use of implantable medical devices is a common and indispensable part of medical care for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. However, as side effect, the implant of medical devices quite often leads to the occurrence of difficult-to-treat infections, as a consequence of the colonization of their abiotic surfaces by biofilm-growing microorganisms increasingly resistant to antimicrobial therapies.