Watanabe, Atsuhiro Abe, Tomoyuki Oshita, Akihiko Hanada, Keiji Noriyuki, Toshio Nakahara, Masahiro
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International journal of surgery case reports
Pancreatic adenosquamous cell carcinoma (PASC) is a rare histological type of pancreatic malignancy with a particularly poor prognosis, even after curative surgery. Here, we describe the long-term prognosis of PASC in a patient who developed delayed local recurrence of the remnant pancreas after successful distal pancreatectomy, together with a lit...
Banchini, Filippo Luzietti, Enrico Romboli, Andrea Palmieri, Gerardo Conti, Luigi Capelli, Patrizio
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Kimura, Naoya Hiraki, Masatsugu Sato, Hirofumi Koga, Hiroki Mori, Daisuke Tanaka, Toshiya Kitahara, Kenji
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Intussusception of the cecum due to acute appendicitis is rare condition. A 17-year-old male patient presented to our hospital with a chief complaint of right lower abdominal pain, which had lasted for two days. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a "target sign" from the cecum to the ascending colon, leading to a diagnosis of cecocolic intussuscepti...
Nnko, Kanankira A Rwakatema, Deogratius S Bina, Steven M Mwita, Samweli F Maria, Albert R Mremi, Alex
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Juvenile trabecular ossifying fibroma (JTOF) is a rare variant of ossifying fibroma. Though it is benign, it has aggressive clinical behavior. JTOF may pose diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties due to their clinical, radiological and histological variability. Herein, we describe our experience in encountering this unusual disease entity in terms...
Pramaditya, Herlangga Tjokroprawiro, Brahmana Askandar
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• Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare but highly aggressive malignant tumor of the uterus. • LMS with huge mass can be difficult to diagnose accurately. • LMS in a young woman is a rare case, and some cases with atypical LMS required re-surgery. • Surgical diagnosis of rapid growing masses is important for accurate staging. • Intervention with radical t...
Awadalkreem, Fadia Khalifa, Nadia Ahmad, Abdelnasir G. Suliman, Ahmed Mohamed Osman, Motaz
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• Treatment of maxillofacial trauma requires a multidisciplinary approach. • Hard and soft tissue loss complicates treatment. • Corticobasal implants do not require bone grafting and reduce treatment time. • They help achieve satisfactory peri-implant health and patient satisfaction. • Corticobasal implant-supported prostheses are a feasible treatm...
Bindra, Vimee Satpathy, Gayatri Reddy, C. Archana Swetha, P.
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• Cervical agenesis, partial vaginal agenesis and complete bicorporeal uterus with functioning endometrium is a rare complex Mullerian anomaly. • Significant complications occur following conservative procedures which may lead to repeat procedures/ surgeries increasing morbidity. • Complex mullerian anomalies need individualised management based on...
Tharun Ganapathy, C. George, Nidhi Mariam Selvamuthukumaran, Sundeep Anguraj, Preetam Gilani, Amit
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• Cutaneous tuberculosis is an extremely rare disease often misdiagnosed • The diagnosis of true cutaneous tuberculosis is established by Acid Fast Bacilli staining, MGIT \ or CBNAAT \ • The lesions of cutaneous tuberculosis are extremely responsive to antitubercular drugs.
Putra, Muhammad Arza Grantomo, Jonathan Melisa, Stefanie
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• This is the first case of isolated primary chylopericardium reported in Indonesia. • Surgery should be performed in patients with recurrent effusion. • Delayed surgical treatment increases the risk of constrictive pericarditis. • It also reduces the patient's QoL due to recurrent symptoms and hospitalizations.
Yoshizawa, Jun-chi Shimizu, Tadaaki Ikehara, Tomohiko Fukushima, Kentaro Nakayama, Ataru
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• Pedunculated gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) with torsion are rare. • Torsion of GISTs should be recognized as one of the causes of acute abdomen in patients with GIST. • If a GIST has torsion and ischemic necrosis, the tumor will have no contrast effect inside on CT. • Prompt surgery is vital if torsion of a small intestinal GIST is susp...
