Short- and long-term outcomes after distal pancreatectomy with radiologic infiltration of splenic vessels for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Background: The effect of radiologic splenic vessels involvement (RSVI) on the survival of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC) located in the body and tail of the pancreas is controversial, and its influence on postoperative morbidity after distal pancreatectomy (DP) is unknown. This study aimed to determine the influence of RSVI on postoperative complications, overall survival (OS), and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients undergoing DP for PAC.

Methods: A multicenter retrospective study of DP was conducted at 7 hepatopancreatobiliary units between January 2008 and December 2018.

Distal pancreatectomy with multivisceral resection: A retrospective multicenter study - Case series.

Background: Multivisceral resection (MVR) is sometimes necessary to achieve disease-free margins in cancer surgery. In certain patients with pancreatic tumors that invade neighboring organs these must be removed to perform an appropriate oncological surgery. In addition, there is an increasing need to perform resections of other organs like liver not directly invaded by the tumor but which require synchronous removal.

Case report: Diverticulitis complicating a giant Meckel's divertuculum.

Introduction: In this paper, we discuss a unique case of diverticulitis in which the patient presented a giant Meckel's diverticulum.

Presentation Of Case: The patient was a 44 year old male whose medical history included a laparoscopic gastric bypass four years before the finding, and chronical high blood pressure. The patient came to the emergency department with an abdominal pain and elevated acute-phase reactants.

De Garengeot's hernia: Case report and literature review.

Introduction: De Garengeot's Hernia is a rare type of femoral hernia in which the appendix is located inside the herniated sac. Diagnosis of the condition is challenging and its treatment must be performed without delay.

Presentation Of Case: We present the case of a 75-year-old patient with a femoral hernia in which an appendix with signs of inflammation was found.

What to do with an intraductal papilary mucinous pancreatic neoplasm? Our experience.

Introduction: Cystic pancreatic neoplasms are a heterogeneous group of pathology, and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia is becoming more common. The aim of this study is to review our series of cystic pancreatic neoplasms that underwent surgery and to evaluate the similarities with Fukuoka recommendations.

Methods: Retrospective review of our experience analyzing clinical and radiological data, indication for surgery and pathology study of 11 patients operated on in our centre from july 2011 to july 2015, aiming to evaluate the degree of agreement with the current consensus.

[Complex surgical techniques to control bleeding].

Massive bleeding is a major cause of intraoperative death or death in the immediate postoperative period as a result of surgery. The present article describes the basic principles for the control of surgical bleeding as well as temporary and definitive maneuvers. Temporary control of bleeding can often be achieved with simple maneuvers, which may not be definitive, in which case damage control or planned reoperation are required.

[Obstructive jaundice caused by duodenal amyloidosis succesfully treated with surgery].

We present a case of obstructive jaundice due to duodenal amyloidosis presenting as a bulbar pseudotumor (amyloidoma). The duodenal and biliary obstruction were treated by double bypass, hepatojejunostomy and gastroenterostomy. Our case suggests that surgical palliative treatment may be effective, and that anastomosis is probably safe, allowing the patient a good quality of life.

[Intestinal linitis plastica: late metastasis from gastric signet ring cell adenocarcinoma].

Linitis plastica is a malignant disease that usually occurs in the stomach, although it can affect any segment of the alimentary tract. Typically, this entity shows slow progression and insidious clinical course. We present the case of a patient with a previous diagnosis of signet ring cell cancer of the stomach that had been treated with curative intent 12 years before the clinical onset of small and large bowel linitis plastica.