Caudal duplication is an abnormality which usually affects the digestive, urogenital and even respiratory systems. It forms a graded series from slight duplication to near separation of two fetuses caudocranially. In some conjoined twins, duplication process may cranially proceed up to the head region. This kind of developed conjoined monocephalus twin has been reported in many domestic species...

Foregut duplication cysts are rare. There is no mention of this type of mediastinal mass in searches of the anesthesia literature. A 42-year-old woman undergoing preoperative evaluation for elective bilateral breast augmentation was found by chest radiograph to have a mediastinal mass. She was referred for additional evaluation. After thorough radiographic and physical examination, the patient ...

Objectives. Duplication cysts are rare benign lesions usually arising in the gastrointestinal tract. We report a case of a 52-year-old woman with an incidental gastric mass found on computed tomography during a pregraft workup for a familial cardiomyopathy. Methods. The mass was completely excised by partial gastrectomy and gross examination revealed a cystic lesion containing two small solid n...

An 18-year-old woman presented with crampy upper abdominal pain for 16 months. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy 1 year prior was notable only for heterotopic pancreatic tissue in the gastric antrum. Past history included asthma and congenital genitourinary and pelvic malformations with multiple urological surgeries and genitoplasty. Abdominal examination showed scars from previous surgeries but wa...