De Garengeot's hernia patients entirely treated laparoscopically: a safe and feasible alternative-a systematic review.

Purpose: Less than 450 cases of femoral hernias containing the vermiform appendix have been published since De Garengeot's first description. A laparoscopic treatment option opened 15 years ago seems reliable and safe. A literature review of all the patients who have benefited from this new therapeutic alternative is presented.

Appendix-Sparing Transabdominal Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Hernioplasty for a De Garengeot's Hernia: Video Demonstration.

Less than 300 cases of a De Garengeot's hernia have been published. This rare femoral hernia with the vermiform appendix included appears almost exclusively on the right side, mainly in females, and it generally debuts as an incarcerated femoral hernia. Although most of the times there is a concomitant appendicitis, clinical signs of peritonitis are absent.

Karakousis's abdominoinguinal approach for the treatment of a primary retroperitoneal parasitic leiomyoma with inguinal extension. A case report.

Introduction: Primary retroperitoneal parasitic leiomyoma (PRPL) with inguinal extension is a diagnostic-therapeutic challenge due to its uncertain etiopathogenesis and because it has been considered unresectable according to customary surgical techniques in some instances. The abdominoinguinal incision described by Karakousis in the 1980s allows a safe and radical approach for lower quadrants abdominopelvic tumors.

Objectives: We present the case of a rare PRPL satisfactorily treated through Karakousis's approach.

Periprosthetic seroma with false-positive FDG PET-CT reactive nodes mistaken for metastases in a patient previously treated of metastasic melanoma. Potential source of diagnostic errors.

FDG PET/CT is believed to be crucial in oncology, but its limited specificity represents a challenge. Prosthetic meshes used for repair abdominal defects may lead to false-positives FDG PET/CT uptake, over staging malignancies and inducing inappropriate treatments. A false-positive FDG PET/CT uptake mimicking metastatic disease during the follow-up of a previously treated metastatic melanoma patient is presented.

Isolated rectus abdominis metastasis from melanoma-An extremely rare case.

Introduction: Melanoma is a health problem world-wide. Its incidence has tripled in the last decade. The main cause of death in melanoma patients is widespread metastases.