IPAA-related sepsis significantly increases morbidity of ileoanal pouch excision.

Background: Perineal wound complications after ileoanal pouch excision remain a significant cause of morbidity.

Objective: The purpose of this work was to describe the incidence, outcomes, and predictors of perineal wound complications after pouch excision.

Design: This was a retrospective medical chart review.

[Small bowel intussusception and Vanek's tumor in an elderly woman].

Inflammatory fibroid polyps are non-frequent benign lesions, described by Vanek in 1949, originated in the sub mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. They have an uncertain origin and they are formed of fibroblastic and mesenchymal proliferations with an important eosinophilic proportion. Depending on where are they localized, could present different type of symptoms.

[Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver in an elderly man].

The mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver is a non frequent benign tumor with a ductal plate malformation, consisting of myxoid mesenchymal tissue and abnormal bile ducts in different proportion. Usually it presents as multiple liver cyst formations without communication with the principal bile duct. They are frequent in children, being rare in adults.