Liver abscess and pseudotumoral gastric lesion caused by chicken bone perforation: laparoscopic management.

The accidental ingestion of a foreign body into the gastrointestinal tract is not uncommon, but the vast majority of foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully within a week. Less than 1% of patients with foreign body ingestion develop complications such as perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. The migration of an ingested foreign body may result in chronic inflammation, a silent clinical course, and radiological features suggestive of a neoplasm.

Virtual ileostomy following TME and primary sphincter-saving reconstruction for rectal cancer.

Surgical management of rectal cancer has undergone a significant change during the past two decades. Low anterior resection (LAR) with total mesorectal excision (TME) is, at the moment, the "gold standard" for carcinoma of the mid or lower rectum. Because the most specific complication following rectal resection with anastomosis is symptomatic leakage, which is associated with 18% mortality rate, routine formation of a temporary stoma is suitable after sphincter-saving resection for anastomoses situated at or less than 5cm from the anal verge.

[Surgical and endoluminal treatment of carotid stenosis: our experience].

Carotid endarterectomy and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty are known to prevent cerebrovascular accidents. From January 1997 to December 2002, 47 patients (35 male, 12 female; median age: 65 years) with carotid stenosis were observed. Neurological accidents were reported in 89.