Publications by authors named "Amal Bouazzi"

Purpose: Quality of life (QOL) of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients has been little studied in Tunisia. The aim of this work was to evaluate the QOL of CRC patients and to identify factors that may influence it.

Methods: A cross-sectional, study spread was made over a period of 6 months on patients with CRC treated in the department of Medical Oncology of Farhat Hached University Hospital of Sousse.

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Osteoclastic giant cell tumor of the pancreas is a rare aggressive tumor, counting for 2-7% of all pancreatic cancers. Surgery is considered the most appropriate treatment. We report a case of a 84-year-old man with incidentally detected 11cm tumor in the pancreatic tail and another 6 cm tumor located in the jejunum on abdominal computed tomography.

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Background: Solid pseudopapillary tumour of the pancreas (SPTP) is a rare pancreatic tumour characterized by a non-specific clinical presentations and vague radiologic features. The aim of this study is to identify these tumours from other pancreatic neoplasms because complete resection is curative in most cases and provides long-term survival.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients operated for SPTP between January 2000 and December 2018 was conducted.

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Introduction: Patients with appendicular endometriosis (AE) constitute <1% cases of all pelvic endometriosis cases. AE presents with pain in right iliac fossa and symptomatically mimics appendicitis and definitive diagnosis is possible only after histopathological examination of excised appendix.

Presentation Of Case: In this case report, we present a rare case of appendicular endometriosis in a young woman suffering from pain in right iliac fossa and periumbilical region (on/off) for the past one year.

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