Background: Duplication of the gastrointestinal tract is a rare congenital disorder in pediatric patients. Complete resection case total tubular duplication that requires or subtotal colectomy undesirable children.Case Presentation: This presented simple surgical technique for treating complete colonic without resection. A 2 months old female baby with abdominal distention and stool complaint c...

PATIENT Female, 45 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Neuroendocrine tumor Symptoms: Abdominal pain Medication: - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Gastroenterology and Hepatology. OBJECTIVE Unusual setting of medical care. BACKGROUND Neuroendocrine tumor of the ampulla of Vater is extremely rare and is generally a low-grade endocrine cell tumor. The merits of radical vs. local resection remain uncertain. C...

There are several surgical complications which can occur following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT). Although intestinal obstruction is known to be a common complication after any type of abdominal surgery, the occurrence of small bowel volvulus, which is one of the rare causes of intestinal obstruction, following SPKT has not been published before. A 24-year-old woman suffer...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the stomach presenting as an intra-abdominal abscess are extremely rare. We herein report a case that underwent successful laparoscopic resection of gastric GIST presenting with an intra-abdominal abscess. A 70-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of acute upper abdominal pain with a fever. Laboratory data showed an elevated white blood cell cou...

Introduction. Uterine fibroid tumors (uterine leiomyomas) are the most common benign uterine tumors. The incidence of uterine fibroid tumors increases in older women and may occur in more than 30% of women aged 40 to 60. Many uterine fibroid tumors are asymptomatic and are diagnosed incidentally. Case Presentation. A 44-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with general weakness, dyspepsi...

Omental and mesenteric cysts are both rare pathologies in children. Children who have omental cysts usually display symptoms of abdominal distension, with or without a palpable mass. The mass can simulate ascites on clinical observation, or tuberculosis on radiological images. The optimal treatment for this condition is complete resection. The presenting symptoms of abdominal distension and the...

RATIONALE Leiomyomas arising from the anterolateral abdominal wall are uncommon, and their pathogenesis remains unknown. We present the 15th case of such a tumor, having this unique tumor morphology, followed by a detailed discussion on disease pathogenesis. PATIENT CONCERNS A 48-year-old, asymptomatic perimenopausal, multiparous Japanese woman presented with a left-sided pelvic mass. She had...

it is only recently that mesenteric arterial necrosis, causing severe abdominal symptoms, has been recognized as a post-operative complication after resection of coarctation of the aorta. The first recorded case was mentioned briefly in a report by Sealy (1953) and later presented in detail, together with another similar case, by Benson and Sealy (1956). Two further cases, with lesions indistin...

BACKGROUND Intra-abdominal desmoid tumors are usually slow growing and solitary, but multifocal desmoid tumors develop on rare occasions. Diagnosing desmoid tumors before histological examination of a surgical biopsy is often difficult. In particular, if a patient has a prior history of malignancy, it may be difficult to differentiate between these lesions and disease recurrence or metastasis. ...