Publications by authors named "Ellen Liekens"
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- * A total of 2,515 patients were examined, primarily with lung and renal cancer, revealing a one-year survival rate of 84.3% and low mortality and morbidity rates post-surgery.
- * Findings indicate that while adrenalectomy is increasingly performed minimally invasively, factors like extra-adrenal metastases and incomplete surgery are linked to poorer survival outcomes, highlighting a need for future research on patient selection for this procedure.
Objectives: Primary arterial dissection in peripheral arteries of the extremities is exceedingly rare. Isolated dissection of peripheral arteries (femoropopliteal or popliteal) primarily has been reported in aneurysmal arteries. Spontaneous dissection limited to a non-aneurysmal popliteal artery was first described in 1999 by Rabkin et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: A rectovaginal fistula (RVF) is a rare disease. It's an epithelium-lined abnormal communication between rectum and vagina. It represents approximately 5% of all anorectal fistulas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Diverticular disease is a common disorder of the colon with an extremely rare presentation: giant colonic diverticulum (GCD). GCD is defined as a diverticulum measuring 4 cm or larger and affects the sigmoid colon in 90% of the cases.
Patients: We report on a case of a 74-year-old woman with a GCD.