Hydatid disease can occur in all viscera and soft tissues, although the liver and the lungs are the organs most commonly involved. Isolated splenic involvement with the disease is extremely rare. Splenic hydatid cysts may suppurate, fistulise to adjacent organs, or rupture into the peritonaeal cavity. However, acute, massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to splenocolic communication resul...

A duplication cyst of the caecum is a very rare congenital malformation, representing 0.4% of all gastrointestinal duplications. We present a case of cystic duplication of the caecum in a 12-year-old child who presented with a right iliac fossa mass and peritonitis. An ischaemic, perforated caecal duplication cyst was found on emergency laparotomy, mandating a right hemicolectomy.

BACKGROUND Intestinal intussusception is the most frequent cause of small bowel obstruction in children between the ages of 2 months and 5 years and often remains idiopathic in etiology, even after surgery. On microscopic examination, in intussusception normal mucosa is noted but in a few cases heterotopic tissue can be seen. Heterotopic gastric mucosa in the small intestine is extremely rare e...

Dentigerous cyst in maxillary sinus, especially in children, is uncommon in Malaysia. Few cases of dentigerous cyst in maxillary sinus in children have been reported in the medical literature. According to Tay AB et al, dentigerous cyst was accounted for 2.3% of the 20 most common diagnosed oral tumors in Singapore form year 1993--1997. This report illustrates a case of the dentigerous cyst in ...

Gastric duplication cysts are rare variety of gastrointestinal duplications. Sometimes they may present with complications like hemorrhage, infection, perforation, volvulus, intussusception and rarely neoplastic changes in the gastric duplication cyst. We present one and half year old male child who developed sudden abdominal distension with pain and fever for two days. Ultrasound revealed a cy...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the surgical drainage of large, symptomatic pancreatic cysts (>5 cm) with single- and multi-channel endoscopic drainage. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the period 2005-2010, we treated 112 patients with post-inflammatory pancreatic cysts. Thirty-six patients underwent surgical internal drainage. The remaining group of patients was treated endosco...

A pseudobladder is formed by inoculating rats s.c. with a combination of rat bladder fragments and air. Within 1 month a cyst is produced that is lined completely by normal-appear ing urothelium. The heterotopic pseudobladder persists for as long as 6 months. In some 6-month-old bladder walls, foci of bone formation are found in the stroma underlying the urothelium. The lining epithelium at all...

The development of pancreatic tissue outside the confines of the main gland, without anatomic or vascular connections between them, is a congenital abnormality referred to as heterotopic pancreas. A heterotopic pancreas in the gastrointestinal tract is usually discovered incidentally and the risk of its malignant transformation is extremely low. In this study, we describe the first case of endo...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are solid tumours of the gastrointestinal tract, mostly found in the stomach and intestine. They rarely present as cystic lesions. A 74-year-old woman referred to the hepatopancreaticobiliary unit, with 3 months history of upper abdominal discomfort. Abdominal ultrasound scan showed a large cystic lesion in the epigastric region suggestive of a pancreati...

UNLABELLED Meckels diverticulum is the most frequent congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract. The most common ectopic tissue within a Meckels is heterotopic gastric mucosa, with bleeding being the most common presentation. However, perforation of a Meckels diverticulum is a rare presentation. NSAID-associated Meckels perforation has been suggested, however has not been documented ...