Endo-Biliary Stents for Benign Disease: Not Always Benign after All!

Endo-biliary stents for benign disease: not always benign after all!

This case report describes the presentation, management and treatment of a patient who suffered small bowel perforation due to the migration of his biliary stent which had been inserted for benign disease.

MGUS: not so benign after all.

I t is well appreciated that persons with multiple myeloma have an increased risk of venous thrombosis. More recently, this relative risk has been shown to be increased further in these patients while on therapy with thalidomide and its derivatives. The mechanism of this increased risk for thrombosis has traditionally been attributed to traditional neoplasia risks for thrombosis, such as decrea...

Long-term results of metallic stents for benign biliary strictures.

BACKGROUND Historically, surgical correction has been the treatment of choice for benign biliary strictures (BBS). Self-expandable metallic stents (MSs) have been useful for inoperable malignant biliary strictures; however, their use for BBS is controversial and their natural history unknown. HYPOTHESIS To test our hypothesis that MSs provide only short-term benefit, we examined the long-term...

Cholangiocarcinoma arising after biliary-enteric drainage procedures for benign disease.

The red nail--always benign?

Red nail is a common disorder. However, a thorough examination of the patient's nails allows one to distinguish different diseases. For example, longitudinal erythronychia may be monodactylous or polydactylous. Only the former type can show histologically Bowen's disease or an amelanotic melanoma. Among the polydactylous type, the nosologic position of the acantholytic and dyskeratotic naevus v...