Introduction And Importance: While the treatment approach for sarcomas seems straightforward and well-defined, we often encounter several diagnostic or therapeutic challenges in clinical practice. This article presents a case of retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma in a patient with chronic kidney disease, highlighting the complexity of managing such cases.
Case Report: A 63-year-old woman with a history of chronic kidney disease presented with a progressively enlarging mass in her right flank.
Int J Surg Case Rep
December 2024
Introduction And Importance: Internal and spontaneous bilio-digestive fistulas, without primary biliary disease, are an infrequent complication of the upper digestive tract. We report a case of a Hook-shaped distal common bile duct due to peptic ulcer mimicking cholangiocarcinoma.
Case Report: A 63-year-old patient, with no medical history, presented to the emergency department with recent jaundice.
Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2024
Introduction: Herpes zoster (HZ), caused by the reactivation of the Varicella-Zoster virus, is typically characterized by sensory complications. However, motor complications, such as abdominal pseudohernia, are rare and exceptional. This report presents a case of post-herpes zoster pseudo-hernia in a previously healthy 54-year-old man.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Leiomyosarcomas of the inferior vena cava are scarce. Surgery is the only potential curative treatment. Such a surgery is complex and technically demanding, requiring a huge experience in both visceral and vascular surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Inflammatory fibroid tumors (IFT) or Vanek's tumors are scarce benign neoplasms. They can affect any part of the digestive tract. They are underdiagnosed conditions that are generally revealed by a life-threatening complication such as intussusception.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: and importance: Caecal volvulus represents 30% of colonic volvulus. It happens due to torsion or hyperflexion of a hypermobile caecum. Usually it is secondary to an axial rotation of the caecum and the ileum around the mesentery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory and suppurative disease of the apocrine sweat glands. Its transformation into squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is very rare.
Case Presentation: We describe 3 cases of males aged 57, 58 and 55-years-old.
Introduction And Importance: Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease with complex pathophysiology and multiple complications, some of which can be fatal. We report herein the management of an unusual case of Crohn's disease revealed by two life-threatening complications.
Case Presentation: A 59-year-old patient presented with an acute abdominal pain evolving for one day with a clinical presentation in favor of peritonitis by perforation of the last ileal loop and acute limb ischemia.
Hydatid disease is a major health problem worldwide. The liver is the most frequent location of hydatid disease. Acute pancreatitis secondary to liver hydatid cyst ruptured in the biliary tract is scarce and fewly described in literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hydatid disease is a global zoonosis. Any organ of the human body can be involved. Single or multiple locations are reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Med Surg (Lond)
October 2020
Introduction: This paper reports an uncommon location and complication of a cystic lymphangioma. Few cases of infected colonic cystic lymphangioma were described in literature. Symptoms are non-specific and setting the diagnosis on radiological features remain challenging.
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