abstract background: abdominal tumors are still a diagnostic problem in children. this study was conducted to assess the presentation and types of childhood intra abdominal tumors in children in shiraz. materials and methods: participants of this historical cohort study consisted of 298 children aged between 1.5 months to 15 years old who were diagnosed with abdominal mass between march 2003 an...

Sclerosed hemangioma is a rare variant of hemangioma. We present herein a case of hepatic sclerosed hemangioma. Imaging studies including ultrasonography (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a mass located between the liver and the stomach, with marginally streaky enhancement. A malignant neoplasm originating from the mesentery was suspected preoperatively....

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA) are the most frequently used thermal ablation methods for the treatment of liver cancer. Liver abscess is a common and severe complication of thermal ablation treatment. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and risk factors of liver abscess formation after thermal ablation of liver cancer. ...

CONTEXT The advantage of intraoperative gamma probe detection with (111)In-DPTA-octreotide radiotracer has previously been demonstrated in functional neuroendocrine tumors. We report the only known case of a recurrent nonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm localized intraoperatively using this radiotracer and a hand held gamma probe. CASE REPORT A 51-year-old woman was found to have...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) typically originates from HBV or HCV associated liver cirrhosis. Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is a kind of autoimmune disease. A sixty-two year old female patient with mild liver damage was diagnosed with pSS after excluding viral, alcoholic and drug-induced hepatitis according to serum immunological detection and liver biopsy. But when she was hospitalized fo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Bacteremia due to Aeromonas sobria complex is an uncommon clinical presentation, associated with a high mortality rate. This retrospective study reviewed the clinical manifestations and prognostic factors of A. sobria complex bacteremia. METHODS From September 2001 to August 2006, all adult patients with A. sobria complex bacteremia treated at a tertiary medical center ...

We report two cases of cystic neoplasm of the liver with mucinous epithelium in which both ovarian-like stroma and bile duct communication were absent. The first case was a 41-year-old woman. She underwent right trisegmentectomy due to a multilocular cystic lesion, 15 cm in diameter, with papillary nodular components in the medial segment and right lobe. Histologically, arborizing papillae were...

Background: This study aimed to present and analyze the causes of death in Korean population 2019.Methods: Based on Standard Classification Diseases Causes Death International Statistical Related Health Problems, 10th revision, cause-of-death data for 2019 from Statistics Korea were examined.Results: There 295,110 total deaths, a decrease 3,710 (-1.27%) 2018. The crude rate (the number deaths p...

Pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma (PACC) is an extremely rare neoplasm. Adenoid (ACC) usually occurs in the salivary glands of head and neck. Given its occurrence, there are no established guidelines for treatment progressive and/or relapsed disease. We herein report a case 57-year-old female who was incidentally found to have biopsy confirmed PACC following trauma diagnostic workup. She under...