Liver trauma: What current management?

Background: The liver is the most commonly damaged organ in abdominal trauma. The management of liver trauma has experienced many changes over the last two decades. Currently there is a trend toward a non-operative treatment warranted by the successful pediatric experience and better results recorded in many trauma centers worldwide.

Small bowel volvulus with intussusception: an unusual revelation of neuroendocrine tumor.

The primary malignant tumors of the small bowel are rare, representing 1 to 1.4% of all gastrointestinal tumors. We report a case of a 33 year-old women, admitted to our emergency department of visceral surgery for acute abdomen.

Solitary preperitoneal neurofibroma: a case report.

Background: Neurofibroma is a rare benign tumor. The isolated presence of such lesions in the preperitoneal space with no evidence of systemic disease has never been reported in the literature.

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old white man presented with a 12 months history of progressive abdominal distension.