Publications by authors named "Amine El Houmaidi"

Introduction: Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome is a rare form of pseudohermaphroditism, possibly resulting from the absence of Mullerian duct inhibiting factor.

Presentation Of Case: We report the case of a 36 year-old patient with a syndrome of persistent Müllerian ducts (PMDS) of the female type. The Clinical examination revealed avacant scrotum, a normal penis.

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Collecting duct carcinoma, also known as Bellini duct carcinoma (BDC) is a rare type of renal tumor, arising from the distal collecting ducts. The prognosis of this disease is extremely poor due to its rapid progression with widespread metastasis. The present study reported a case of CDC involving the left renal region of a 68-year-old female patient.

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Penoscrotal lymphedema is a rare condition. The authors present an exceptional case of a 60-year-old male patient who presented with a penoscrotal lymphedema leading to the discovery of an underlying lymphoma. The patient underwent chemotherapy followed by an excision of the affected tissues with reconstructive surgery with satisfactory results.

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  • Breast cancer commonly spreads to bones, lungs, brain, and liver, but it's rare for it to metastasize to the kidneys.
  • A 33-year-old woman previously treated for breast cancer developed two lesions in her right kidney, which initially appeared to be a primary kidney tumor.
  • A biopsy confirmed the kidney lesions were actually metastatic breast cancer, leading to treatment with systemic chemotherapy instead of surgery.
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The adrenal lipoma is an extremely rare, benign, and non-functional tumor. We present the first case of adrenal lipoma on the African continent and the youngest patient reported to date. computed tomography (CT) scan guided diagnosis and laparoscopic adrenalectomy was performed given symptomatic and large mass.

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  • Small cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract is a rare and aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis.
  • A patient presented with low back pain and was found to have a tumor affecting the upper urinary tract, which had already spread to the lungs, liver, bones, and adrenal gland.
  • Diagnosis was confirmed through biopsies taken via flexible ureteroscopy and percutaneous liver biopsy, indicating that the cancer had metastasized.
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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an extremely rare and fatal tumor for women of childbearing age. Consequently, the cases published in the literature are limited and medical experience with therapeutic management of newly diagnosed RCC in pregnant women is poor. We report our clinical experience with a renal tumor diagnosed in first-trimester pregnancy complicated in postoperative by an inferior vena cava thrombosis.

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Introduction: Penile calciphylaxis is a rare disease whose diagnosis is not easy. It is associated with chronic renal failure. It is a result of media calcification and blood vessels' fibrosis such as penile arteries that eventually lead to gangrene formation in extremities and penis.

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Hydatidosis is a rare parasitic disease that is endemic in many countries of the Mediterranean basin. Among unusual localizations, renal involvement is rarer (2-3% of visceral forms) than splenic and soft tissue localizations but more frequent than cardiac, bony or cerebral localizations.

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The discovery of a kidney stone in a living kidney donor is rare. The managing technique of this situation and the timing of the treatment of the stone is not well codified. Should it be treated before the removal of the kidney or in ex-vivo after nephrectomy and in cold ischemia ? We report a case of a 60-year-old mom who donates kidney willingly to her son.

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Bladder cancers are not very common in young people under 20 years, especially with an atypical presentation such as faecaluria due to enterovesical fistula. This report describes the case of a 20 years old man who was diagnosed with a mass involving the small intestine and bladder during the course of investigations for faecaluria and abdominal pain. Histopathological examination of the biopsies during cystoscopy revealed: muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma, while the computerized tomography scan had confirmed the enterovesical fistula.

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Objective: To assess the long-term follow-up after ileocaecal continent cutaneous reservoir (ICCR) and to review the late complications.

Patients And Methods: In all, 756 patients underwent an ICCR in our department, with long-term follow-up data available in 50 patients. The inclusion criterion was ICCR regardless of the indication and the exclusion criteria were orthotopic neobladder or other continent urinary diversions not performed with the ileocaecum.

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