Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2022
Introduction And Importance: Squamous cell carcinoma of the gall bladder is a rare but aggressive tumor. It has a wide variety of presentations. Presentation as a liver abscess is a rare condition only 2 cases reported in the literature before.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: and Importance: Post-operative pancreatic fistula is a morbid complication after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Though most of them present in the immediate post-operative period, few case reports have mentioned it even 7 years after index surgery. Here, we report a delayed presentation of pancreatic fistula 6 months after surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Acquired hemophilia A (AHA) is a rare disorder characterized by development of antibodies against factor VIII, which can present as paraneoplastic syndrome in various malignancies like periampullary cancer, cancer of lung, prostate, gastrointestinal stromal tumour and non malignant cases like pregnancy, autoimmune disease and medication.
Case Presentation: We report a case of elderly man presented with paraneoplastic AHA in periampullary carcinoma in preoperative period which was diagnose by mixing study and inhibitor assay and managed with bypass agents like recombinant factor VII, FEIBA and immunosuppresion to eliminate inhibitor with help of steroid, cyclophosphamide and emicizumab. Patient underwent Whipple's pancreaticoduodenectomy after which coagulation study became normal in immediate postoperative period.
Introduction: Spontaneous CBD perforation is one of the rare causes of acute abdomen in infants and extremely rare in adults. It is rarely suspected and correctly diagnosed preoperatively.
Presentation Of Case: A 17year old female presented to Emergency Department with sudden onset of pain and distention of abdomen, associated with vomiting and non-passage of flatus and stool for 3days and features of generalized peritonitis.
Introduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the commonest mesenchymal tumor of GI tract and 60-70% of it seen in the stomach, whereas Gastric schwannoma is a benign, slow growing and one of the rare neoplasms of stomach. Age distribution, clinical, radiological features and gross appearance of both tumors are similar.
Presentation Of Case: We report a rare case of gastric schwannoma in a 20-year-old girl, who underwent subtotal gastrectomy with the suspicion of a GIST preoperatively but later confirmed to be gastric schwannoma postoperatively after immunohistochemical study.