We present the case of a 57-year old man who underwent total parathyroidectomy with autotransplantation into the brachioradial muscle (Wells' method) due to secondary hyperparathyroidism as a complication of chronic renal failure. Three years later the patient developed recurrent secondary hyperparathyroidism due to graft hyperplasia resulting in the removal of the graft. We point out various p...

Thoracic splenosis is rare benign condition that follows trauma leading to diaphragmatic injury. Most of the patients including ours present with a clear traumatic event leading to autotransplantation of spleen in thoracic cavity. Mostly diagnosed incidentally and we need to avoid unnecessary workup including radiological and invasive. It is a very important case which signifies importance of g...

Intraoperative fluorescent imaging using indocyanine green enables vascular surgeons to confirm the location and states of the reconstructed vessels during surgery. Complex renal artery aneurysm repair involving second order branch vessels has been performed with different techniques. We present a case of ex vivo repair and autotransplantation combining the advantages of minimally invasive surg...

Title Liver Autotransplantation for an Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Author(s) Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa; Eguchi, Susumu; Hashizume, Koji; Soyama, Akihiko; Hidaka, Masaaki; Tanigawa, Kazuyoshi; Eishi, Kiyoyuki; Kuroki, Tamotsu Citation Transplantation, 98(12), pp.e91-e93; 2014 Issue Date 2014-12-27 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/35370 Right © 2014 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; This is a non-final versi...

Splenosis is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue, most commonly seen after traumatic splenic rupture and splenectomy. Post-traumatic splenosis is often considered a rare entity, but is probably underreported because of its asymptomatic nature. We describe the first reported case of splenosis presenting as a liver mass, indistinguishable from a liver tumor by standard preoperative evaluati...

Permanent hypothyroidism following surgical resection in a patient with Graves' disease requires levo-thyroxine replacement therapy for the rest of the patient's life . We mentioned' one therapeutic regimen for this patient in our first report on the autotransplantation of cryopreserved thyroid tissue in a patient with irreversible hypothyroidism. In this second report, we present the findings ...

Kidney artery aneurysms are a rare phenomenon with prevalence of 0.01%-1% in the general population. Although historical series describe rupture rates 14% to 30% mortality rate 80%, natural history kidney is currently characterized by low risk and slow nonexistent growth rate. Criteria for repair have been controversial decades include aneurysm size > 2 cm, female sex, symptoms such as drug-...

I MMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL examination of two failed human small intestinal grafts showed no evidence of extrinsic reinnervation for up to 22 or 8 months whereas intrinsic neural innervation showed only a slight decrease from normal intestine. The mechanisms responsible for this lack of neural input are not known. The purpose of this study was to examine extrinsic reinnervation in canine small bowel ...