Shibasaki, Yuta Sohda, Makoto Ogawa, Hiroomi Katayama, Chika Ozawa, Naoya Komine, Chika Suga, Kunihiko Osone, Katsuya Okada, Takuhisa Shiraishi, Takuya
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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...
Hamura, Ryoga Haruki, Koichiro Iwase, Ryota Furukawa, Kenei Shirai, Yoshihiro Onda, Shinji Gocho, Takeshi Ikegami, Toru
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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...
Asahi, Yoh Kamiyama, Toshiya Orimo, Tatsuya Shimada, Shingo Nagatsu, Akihisa Sakamoto, Yuzuru Ishizuka, Chihiro Hamada, Kazuya Kamachi, Hirofumi Takakuwa, Emi
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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...
Nakanishi, Wataru Miyagi, Shigehito Tokodai, Kazuaki Fujio, Atsushi Kashiwadate, Toshiaki Sasaki, Kengo Shono, Yoshihiro Ohta, Mineto Saitoh, Yoshikatsu Unno, Michiaki
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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...
Korehisa, Shotaro Kabashima, Akira Ichimanda, Michihiro Umeda, Kenji Koso, Hidenori Yada, Kazuhiro Arakane, Motoki Anai, Hideaki
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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 ...
Obatake, Masayoshi Sato, Koichi Yagi, Shigehiko Ohtani, Hiromi Kito, Katsumi
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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 ...
Hozaka, Yuto Sasaki, Ken Nishikawa, Takuro Onishi, Shun Noda, Masahiro Tsuruda, Yusuke Uchikado, Yasuto Kita, Yoshiaki Arigami, Takaaki Mori, Shinichiro
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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...
Nagao, Atsuki Noie, Tamaki Horiuch, Hajime Yamada, Haruyasu Momiyama, Masashi Nakajima, Kentaro Satou, Shouichi Satodate, Hitoshi Nara, Satoshi Harihara, Yasushi
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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...
Hamasaki, Hirokazu Shirakami, Chika Yamada, Tatsuya Motooka, Yamato Fujino, Kosuke Ikeda, Koei Suzuki, Makoto
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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...
Sakamoto, Shinya Matsumura, Masaru Tani, Keigo Nemoto, Satoshi Tsuchida, Kazuhito Koga, Fumitaka Seyama, Yasuji
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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...