Metastasis to the pancreas--an indication for pancreatic resection?

Background And Aims: Isolated metastatic involvement of the pancreas is very rare. To evaluate the possible benefit of surgery, we retrospectively analyzed patients that underwent pancreatic resection for metastases into the pancreas.

Patients/methods: In 12 patients (8 men and 4 women), metastatic disease was treated by pancreatic resection (two total pancreatectomies, nine pylorus-sparing duodenopancreatectomies, and one left-side pancreatic resection) between 1993 and 2005 at our institution.

Treatment of bilateral elbow dislocation using external fixation with motion capacity: a report of 2 cases.

Bilateral elbow dislocation is a rare injury and only 11 cases are described in the literature, including 8 patients with isolated ligamentous and 3 patients with an additional osseous injury. We present 2 cases of bilateral posterior elbow dislocations treated with a bilateral hinged elbow fixator with motion capacity to allow for early physiotherapy. Both patients had a high-energy trauma with one who fell off a ladder from a 5 m height and the second from a mountain bike injury during off-road biking.

Duodenal somatostatinoma: clinical and immunohistochemical patterns--difficult differential diagnosis in regard to gangliocytic paraganglioma: report of a case.

The authors report a large duodenal somatostatinoma, a very rare tumor entity. A 8.5 cm globular mass in the area of the unicate process of the pancreas was detected in a 45 year old caucasian female by computerized tomography.

[Neoadjuvant chemotherapy of primary hepatic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma].

Background: Since primary malignant lymphomas of the liver represent a rare entity, no commonly accepted therapeutic strategy has been developed so far.

Case Study: We report the case of a diffuse large-cell B-cell lymphoma of the liver in a 48-year-old female patient. The tumor presented as a solitary mass measuring 12.