An abdominal cocoon is an extremely rare condition, and has been reported mainly in young adolescent women as a cause of small bowel obstruction. In these patients, the small bowel is encased in a fibrous sac called an abdominal cocoon. We hereby present two cases who were diagnosed only by laparotomy and their correlation with the literature. They both received early intervention, thus prevent...

A 65-year-old male patient was referred to our hospital for postprandial abdominal pain. Computed tomography and angiography revealed 2 aneurysms of the right gastroepiploic artery, which were measured 0.8×1.3 cm and 1.9×3.4 cm. Excision of 2 saccular and fusiform aneurysms by laparotomy was performed. His hospital course was uneventful and symptoms disappeared after surgery. A gastroepiploic a...

department, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, with diffuse abdominal pain for one day in April 2012. Her abdomen was distended, hypoactive and tender without palpable masses. Abdominal plain radiograph showed intestinal obstruction (Fig. 1). The computed tomography (CT) of abdomen demonstrated incarceration of the small bowel into the left obturator foramen (Fig. 2). An obturator hernia wit...

Postoperative intra-abdominal adhesions are a significant complication of horses undergoing abdominal surgery, intestinal resection, and anastomosis for intestinal diseases. The use of a bioresorbable, hyaluronate (HA-) membrane may reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with surgical intestinal diseases in horses. Specific indications, method of application, and advantages and disadvant...

Pylephlebitis is a septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein that is associated with multiple suppurative abdominal infections, such as diverticulitis, appendicitis, cholangitis, and cholecystitis. We describe a case of pylephlebitis in a patient with fever and diffuse, poorly localized abdominal pain who was eventually diagnosed with appendicitis. We aim to increase awareness of this conditio...

A 72 years old non smoker patient had PET-CT exploration for left lung cancer. It highlighted an unexpected sub diaphragmatic fixation. The abdominal CT scan highlighted a small size formation, hyper vascular, located at the right side of the abdominal aorta, close to the ostium of the inferior mesenteric artery. The diagnosis of paraganglioma of the Zuckerk and l body was suspected and confirm...

A 31-year-old gentleman who had undergone an emergent esophagectomy and reconstruction with a colon interposition graft, presented with a long-standing cologastric stricture. He had undergone multiple attempts at endoscopic dilation over multiple decades with little symptomatic relief. He underwent a resection and reconstruction of the anastomosis entirely through an abdominal approach. He did ...

Abdominal Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) are the most common extra nodal presentation of pediatric NHL. Our aim is to assess the role of surgery as a risk factor and to evaluate the impact of risk-adjusted systemic chemotherapy on survival of patients with stages II and III disease. This study included 35 pediatric patients with abdominal NHL treated over five years at South Egypt Cancer Institute...

BACKGROUND Cystic lymphangiomas (CL) rarely present as intra-abdominal masses. Abdominal CL is often discussed in conjunction with mesenteric cysts; however, their histology, location and age of presentation differ significantly. In an attempt to establish a best diagnostic and treatment modality, we report our experience dealing with intra-abdominal CL during a 5-year period. METHODS Between...

Abstract Background Esophageal cancer is an aggressive malignancy with high incidence of lymph node metastasis and recurrence rate even after neoadjuvant treatment radical resection. Previous study has shown that modified en bloc esophagectomy (mEBE) improves survival for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) chemoradiotherapy (nCRT). In this study, we aim to investigate the pattern nCRT+mE...