We presented a rare case of chronic afferent loop obstruction after radical resection of gastric carcinoma. A 44year-old man was admitted because of “upper abdominal distension and abdominal pain for 3 months, skin and sclera jaundice for 2 weeks”. Abdominal CT revealed dilatation of the intrahepatic bile duct and common bile duct, a large, abdominal cystic lesion, as well as left adrenal gland...

Splenosis is a benign condition caused by ectopic autotransplantation of splenic tissues after splenic trauma or surgery. It is usually diagnosed accidentally. However, occasionally splenosis poses a significant diagnostic dilemma, especially when this condition presents as a metastatic malignant disease on abdominal imaging. This is the case report of a 54-year-old woman, who underwent post-tr...

A 74-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for management of persistent iron deficiency anemia with mild epigastric pain. Before referral, her esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy findings had been normal, and she had been treated with oral iron preparation for the preceding 6 months. Physical examination and abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography at our institution were no...

We herein report a rare case of mesenteric leiomyoma which is remarkable for its huge size in a male individual and cystic degeneration. A 22-year-old man presented with abdominal distention for 3 months. Systematic physical examination revealed abdominal bulge and soft abdomen. Laboratory examination indicated nothing but a slight increase of CA125. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a...

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Lesion To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Duftner et al1 reporting the prevalence of peripheral interferon(IFN)–producing CD4 CD28 and CD8 CD28 T cells in patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Along with the recent description that Th1-type immune responses predominate in human end-stage AAA lesion,2,3 their observation further supports ...

Sir, Lymphangiomas are rare, benign lesions of lymphatics that usually occur in the head and neck region in children (1, 2). An intra-abdominal location is exceptional and the majority of cases occur in early childhood (1–3). The clinical presentation of intra-abdominal lymphangioma (IAL) is diverse, ranging from an incidentally discovered abdominal cyst to symptoms of acute abdomen resulting i...

Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignant neoplasm that accounts for 1-2% of all pancreatic neoplasms. Here we report two cases of ACC and describe their clinical features, the therapies used to treat them, and their prognosis. The first patient was a 65-year-old woman who had an abdominal CT scan for a urinary infection. Fortuitously, a rounded and well-delimited corporeal pan...

OBJECTIVE To describe a case of retroperitoneal mature teratoma presenting as metastasis of a testicular mixed germ cell tumor in a thirty year old man who had lumbar and abdominal pain and mass sensation in the left hemiabdomen. METHODS Abdominal ultrasound and thoracic-abdominal-pelvic CT multidetector scan were performed, and then after a Doppler ultrasound study of the testicles. Surgical...