Publications by authors named "Eric Nellis"
Most malignant obstructive jaundice arises from primary periampullary tumors and rarely from metastatic cancer of the head and neck. A 60-year-old male was diagnosed with obstructive jaundice due to metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil. Only 12 cases of small bowel metastasis from the head and neck have been reported.
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- Pancreatic pseudocysts and walled-off pancreatic necrosis can occur as complications of pancreatitis, affecting 5-20% of such patients with multiple fluid collections.
- This case report discusses a 72-year-old male who had three fluid collections due to acute necrotizing pancreatitis and was treated with a specific endoscopic procedure.
- The patient's condition improved significantly, both in terms of the size of the fluid collections observed on CT scans and in clinical symptoms, just one day after the treatment.
Background: For severe, complicated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), concomitant treatment with IV metronidazole and oral vancomycin is usually prescribed. Sometimes vancomycin per rectum (VPR) is added to increase colonic drug delivery. Our purpose was to examine clinical outcomes of patients with CDI treated with VPR and compare results to a matched control group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report an unusual case of small bowel obstruction caused by an intestinal cast in an 8-year-old female who developed intestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following two unrelated bone marrow transplants for aplastic anemia, and highlight the pathophysiology, common presentations, and surgical complications of intestinal GVHD from the surgeons' perspective.
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