INTRODUCTION Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare disease resembling a mesenteric tumour. We present here a case of sclerosing mesenteritis that affected both the large and the small intestine of the patient. Therapeutic and diagnostic issues are discussed. CASE PRESENTATION A 62-year-old man with a history of non-Hodgkin lymphoma presented with fatigue, a palpable tender abdominal mass and clin...

INTRODUCTION A primary aortoenteric fistula (PAEF) is a communication between aorta and the gastrointestinal tract. It is a rare condition that is difficult to diagnose and therefore associated with a high mortality. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a rare case of a 66-year old man with an unstable bleeding PAEF. A salvage procedure was performed with a covered stent. Later, a sigmoidectomy was...

Endometriosis is defined as the growth of endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity. Extrapelvic endometriosis is frequently seen in intestine. Intestinal endometriosis may present with colicky pain, nausea, vomit, constipation and gut obstruction which are non-specific. This article reports a case of sigmoid endometriosis. This patient presented with difficult defecation without...

Ureterosigmoidostomy is associated with the risk of several late complications including cancer development at anastomotic sites. We present an unusual case with adenocarcinoma of the anastomotic site associated with multiple adenocarcinoma lesions in the upper urinary tract. A 69-year-old man complained of persistent melena and hematuria. He had undergone radical cystectomy for high-grade blad...

Psammocarcinoma is a rare variant of serous carcinoma arising either from ovary or peritoneum, characterized by massive psammoma body formation, low-grade of cytologic differentiation and invasiveness. Its clinical behavior is similar to the serous borderline tumors, whose prognosis is significantly better compared to invasive forms, with a 5-year survival in stage I greater than 95%. A typical...

Backbround: Urethral metastatic adenocarcinoma is extremely rare. Moreover, only 9 previous cases with metastases from colorectal cancer have been reported to date, and not much information on urethral metastases from colorectum is available so far. Case presentation: We report our experience in the diagnosis and the management of the case with urethral metastasis from a sigmoid colon cancer. A...

AIM To evaluate the efficacy of Hartmann's procedure and RPA with modified blow-hole colostomy for gangrenous sigmoid volvulus. METHODS Sixty-one patients operated on between January 2004 to September 2010 were reviewed retrospectively. The demographic data of the patients,clinical features, type of surgical procedure performed, postoperative complications, mortality and duration of hospital ...

To this day, the treatment of generalized peritonitis secondary to diverticular perforation is still controversial. Recently, in patients with acute sigmoid diverticulitis, laparoscopic lavage and drainage has gained a wide interest as an alternative to resection. Based on this backdrop, we decided to perform a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and efficac...

During the initial emergency operation, a temporary loop colostomy (TLC) was constructed at the oral border of the region for subsequent radical resection. Then, radical surgery was performed by hybrid 2-port HALS (Mukai's operation) using the TLC as the hand access site. Left hemicolectomy was done in three patients, sigmoidectomy in two cases, low anterior resection in one case, and Hartmann'...