BACKGROUND Resection of peritoneal metastases has been shown to improve survival in patients with abdominal metastatic disease from abdominal or extra abdominal malignancy. This study evaluates the benefit of peritoneal metastatic resection in patients with malignant small bowel obstruction and a past history of treated cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients undergoing laparotomy for resection...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Biliary cystadenoma (BCA) and biliary cystadenocarcinoma (BCAC) account for 5%-10% of liver cystic diseases. In this study, we analysed the clinical presentation and surgical management of patients with BCA and BCAC. METHODS We retrospectively analysed the medical records of 23 BCA and 7 BCAC cases diagnosed between January 2007 and December 2013. RESULTS There was a statis...

BACKGROUND Biliary cysts are duct dilatation that can occur on all biliary ducts, 20-25% is diagnosed in adults. The classic triad for the clinical presentation consists on abdominal pain, jaundice and abdominal mass. The standard treatment is surgical resection and bilioenteric anastomosis. The objective of this study is to analyze the prevalence and characteristics of biliary cysts in our cen...

A 55-year-old man with atrial fibrillation and cerebral infarction presented one-month history of abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, hematochezia. Abdominal computed tomography showed wall thickening a limited area the jejunum. Although his symptoms improved as result fasting fluid therapy, pain recurred after resumption oral intake. Single-balloon endoscopy revealed multiple round ulcers in jeju...

Retroperitoneal tumors are lesions with diverse pathological subtypes that originate from the retroperitoneal space; ~40% of these tumors are benign. Due to such lesions often surrounding and associating with vital abdominal blood vessels, a complete surgical resection is difficult. The current study presents a novel surgical approach, known as fractionation, through which a benign retroperiton...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the surgical outcomes of abdominal total gastrectomy, without mediastinal lymph node dissection for type II and III gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancers. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed surgical outcomes in 67 consecutive patients with type II and III GEJ cancers that were treated by the surgical resection between 2004 and 200...

The aim of this study was to evaluate operative laparoscopy in comparison with conventional laparotomy for intestinal resection and anastomosis in dogs. Eighteen adult dogs were equally and randomly divided into 3 groups: Group I: Intestinal anastomosis was performed extracorporeally, by laparoscopic-assisted surgery, in which a 5cm loop of small bowel was exteriorized through a mini-laparotomy...

PURPOSE This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of conventional chest radiography, carcinoembrionic antigen (CEA) level and abdominal computed tomography (CT) or chest CT for early detection of pulmonary metastasis after a curative resection of colorectal cancer. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 84 cases of pulmonary metastasis from a group of colorectal cancer patients who ...

Aim. To study the specific features of splenic artery architectonics and evaluate results distal pancreatic resection for various tumors. Materials Methods. In anatomical part, we examined 88 organ complexes taken from people whose death was not associated with diseases abdominal organs. We studied topography dependence number its branches to pancreas on vessel tortuosity. The clinical part pre...

Although decreasing in number, radiation induced rectovaginal fistulas are caused by some radiation injuries and chronic ischemic lesions. Most of the experienced authors recommend anterior rectal resection with coloanal anastomosis accessed through the abdominal-perineum area for high fistula. We present a patient with a fistula that developed 23 years after hysterectomy and radiotherapy. In t...