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Background Chlamydial infection is a difficult-to-diagnose type of sexually transmitted disease that occurs mainly in young people. We report a case of bowel obstruction caused by intrapelvic adhesions formed by chlamydial infection. Case presentation This patient was a 23-year-old woman who had been suffering from acute abdominal pain. She had bee...
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BackgroundCholesterol crystal embolism (CCE) following transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is rare.Case presentationA 71-year-old man underwent TACE for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). On postoperative day (POD) 5, he developed abdominal pain and fever. Computed tomography revealed intraperitoneal free air. The patient was...
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BackgroundHepatic angiomyolipoma (HAML) is a rare liver tumor, and hepatectomy is the only effective treatment. Due to the difficulty of correct diagnosis of HAML before surgery by image studies, more than 36.6% of reported HAMLs are misdiagnosed as other malignant liver tumors before surgery. As there are only few reported cases in which HAMLs wer...
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BackgroundRenoportal anastomosis is an option for the portal vein reconstruction of a liver transplantation with grade 4 portal vein thrombosis and a splenorenal shunt. Here, we report the case of gastrointestinal bleeding who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) with renoportal anastomosis.Case presentationSix-year-old female patien...
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BackgroundSkeletal muscle metastasis from gastric cancer is rare and has a poor prognosis. We reported a case of gluteal muscle metastasis with peritoneal dissemination from gastric cancer during postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy.Case presentationA 64-year-old man with gastric cancer underwent distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node resection. The ...
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BackgroundImmunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disorder that can involve multiple organs. It is characterized by IgG4-positive plasma cell-rich storiform fibrosis and obliterative phlebitis associated with a high serum IgG4 level. There are few reports of gastric IgG4-RD, especially those detected prior to ...
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BackgroundAnaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a CD30-positive T-cell lymphoma, which is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. ALCL rarely presents in the gastrointestinal tract, and the esophageal involvement in of ALCL is extremely rare.Case presentationAn 11-year-old boy who complained of abdominal pain and cough was diagnosed with ALK-positi...
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BackgroundPatients with advanced-stage breast cancer often demonstrate pancreatic metastases. However, pancreatic metastases resection from breast cancer has been rarely performed, with only 20 cases having been reported to date.Case presentationA 49-year-old woman presented to our hospital in September 2003 with complaints of uncontrollable oozing...
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BackgroundRight sleeve lower lobectomy is rarely performed because pulmonary function of the middle lobe is not spared to the extent of the other lobes and achieving a proper bronchial anastomosis is technically more difficult than other sleeve lobectomies.Case presentationWe performed four right sleeve lower lobectomies and had good clinical outco...
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BackgroundRenal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a primary tumor with the highest frequency of pancreatic metastasis. Although surgical resection can improve the prognosis of some patients with pancreatic metastasis of RCC (PM-RCC), the role of palliative surgery remains unclear. Herein, we described a case of jejunal limb occlusion caused by a tumor thromb...
