Publications by authors named "Fayez Sandouk"

Introduction: Pancreatic trauma is a rare type of abdominal injury, representing only 0.3 % of pediatric trauma cases. This condition may progress to chronic pancreatitis and result in multiple complications following damage to the pancreatic duct.

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Introduction And Importance: The argon plasma coagulation is a technique used for noncontact thermal coagulation of tissue. Hyperplastic polyps are the most common non-neoplastic polyps in the colon.

Case Presentation: We presented a 3-year-old girl with a chief complaint of bloody stool and rectal tenesmus that began 5 days ago.

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Ascariasis is not widespread in Europe, and the knowledge on how to diagnose and treat the disease is limited to some specialists. On the other hand, clinicians are facing an increasing number of immigrants from high-prevalence countries and are, therefore, challenged to update in this field of infectious diseases. Here we present current knowledge on this infection in 2 parts.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer death in the world. The incidence rate (ASR) and age distribution of this disease differ between most of African-Middle-Eastern (AMAGE) and North America and Europe for many reasons. However, in all areas, "CRC" is considered as one of the most preventable cancers, because it might develop from variant processes like polyps and IBD in addition to the genetic pathogenesis which became very well known in this disease.

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