The diagnostic dilemma: Giant Mucocele of the appendix-challenging conventional thinking.

This article reports on a 76-year-old male patient diagnosed with a mucocele of the appendix. A mucocele of the appendix is a benign fluid-filled swelling caused by the accumulation of mucus in the appendix due to a blockage in its discharge route. The patient presented with symptoms of chronic constipation and rectal tenesmus and was diagnosed through physical examination, imaging studies and laboratory tests.

Successful outcome of combined surgical and negative pressure therapy in complex enterocutaneous fistulas: a case report.

An enterocutaneous fistula (ECF) is a complex medical issue that occurs when abnormal communication between the small intestine and the skin occurs. This can lead to the leakage of digestive contents, such as feces and food, onto the skin's surface. The case of an 86-year-old woman is presented, who developed high-output ECF after undergoing Hartmann surgery, intestinal transit reconstruction for perforated diverticulitis and incisional hernia treatment involving hernioplasty and polypropylene mesh.

IgG4-related disease presenting with an epidural inflammatory pseudotumor: a case report.

Background: Inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare clinical condition that can be related to immunoglobulin G4 disease. Only a few cases of spinal inflammatory pseudotumors have been reported in the literature and an association with immunoglobulin G4 disease was not conclusive in any of them. We describe what we believe to be the first biopsy-proven case of an epidural inflammatory pseudotumor related to immunoglobulin G4 disease.

Spontaneous recanalization after vasectomy.

Vasectomy is the method most commonly used in men for voluntary sterilization purposes. We report two cases of early recanalization following vasectomies performed in 1085 men for sterilization purposes at a tertiary public institution between January 2000 and November 2003. Thus, the risk of 0.

Proliferative lesions of prostate: a multivariate approach to differential diagnosis.

Prostatic needle biopsies from 142 patients were studied: 61 cases were "benign", 19 atypical small acinar proliferation, 31 high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, and 31 adenocarcinoma. Using univariate analysis of 46 previously described morphological features, 16 variables were selected, which were followed by multivariate discriminant analysis. Of these parameters, seven (glandular fusion, crystalloids, nucleolomegaly, papillary architecture, visibility of basal cell layer, areas of normal luminal cell nucleus/cytoplasm ratio and areas of high luminal cell nucleus/cytoplasm ratio) remained significant in discriminating the groups.