The management of synchronous asymptomatic colonic metastases from primary esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has not yet been reported. A 64-year-old male patient was diagnosed with middle thoracic ESCC. The patient received chemoradiotherapy and incomplete response/stable disease was achieved. Preoperative colonoscopy revealed a 1.0-cm submucosal tumor at the splenic flexure of the col...

Tubular colonic duplication presenting in adults is rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 29-year-old lady presenting with a long history of chronic constipation, abdominal mass and repeated episodes of abdominal pain. The abdominal-pelvic computed tomography scan showed segmental bowel wall thickening thought...

PATIENT Male, >60 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Colonic lipoma Symptoms: Rectal bleeding • abdominal pain • fatique • abdominal distention MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: Laparoscopic resection Specialty: General surgery. OBJECTIVE We aimed to review and discuss the clinical picture and management of 4 patients who underwent laparoscopic colonic resection with a definitive pathology of colonic lipoma. ...

Introduction: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma represents 0.3% of colonic malignancies. It presents in older males with comorbid infection, autoimmune disease or immunosuppression. Presenting symptoms are often non-specific including abdominal pain, decreased appetite, weight loss and anemia. Colonic perforation or obstruction from primary colonic lymphoma is commonly reported after treatment with chemothe...

Elective laparoscopic colonic surgery is increasingly recognized as feasible and perhaps preferential. A case of laparoscopically assisted surgery for trauma to the rectum with bacterial peritonitis is presented. It presents an example of the application of this modality to the treatment of iatrogenic colon perforations and perhaps selected diverticulitis.

BACKGROUND Recurrence and severity of Crohn’s disease mucosal lesions after “curative” ileal resection is assessed at endoscopy. Intramural lesions can be detected as increased wall thickness at Small Intestine Contrast Ultrasonography (SICUS). AIMS To asses after ileal resection whether: 1) SICUS detects recurrence of Crohn’s disease lesions, 2) the intestinal wall thickness measured at the le...

A 58-year-old Chinese man presented with a three-week history of fever. He had a background history of rheumatic heart disease, hypertension, and thalassaemia. He was found to have infective endocarditis of the aortic valve due to Streptococcus gallolyticus. During the hospital stay, he developed a few episodes of haematochaezia and was subsequently found to have colonic carcinomain- situ. He c...

this is to report the case of a huge vaginal stone, and bladder calculi in a 26-year-old woman with previous operation of bladder exstrophy. it seems that the vaginal stone was secondary to the remaining wire used in her previous reconstructive surgery for pelvic closure 20 years ago and now surgery is performed to remove the vaginal and bladder stones.

UNLABELLED This study aimed to evaluate emergency non traumatic colonic surgery mortality and morbidity in our practice MATERIAL AND METHODS Data of all 85 patients who underwent an emergency non traumatic colonic surgery during the period from August the 1st 1998 to June the 30th 2006, were retrospectively reviewed. Surgical procedures included either colonic resections with (n = 33) or with...