Non-hiatal diaphragmatic hernias: results of transabdominal and transthoracic surgical approaches at a fourth-level hospital.

Objective: The objective of this study is to elucidate the clinical and demographic profiles, as well as perioperative outcomes, of patients undergoing surgery for non-hiatal diaphragmatic hernias. Additionally, it aims to analyse these outcomes based on the surgical approach employed (transthoracic versus transabdominal).

Methods: This retrospective, observational study was conducted at a single center and involved patients diagnosed with non-hiatal diaphragmatic hernia who underwent either emergency or elective surgery between July 2007 and March 2023.

Percutaneous cholecystostomy: an unusual route of dissemination of gallbladder carcinoma.

A 78-year-old male with high-risk surgical presented severe acute cholecystitis and required cholecystostomy. The patient was referred later for assessment of the surgical treatment. A cholangio-MRI revealed a lesion on the gallbladder fundus with hepatic lesions suggestive of metastatic gallbladder carcinoma, which was confirmed in the histological analysis.

An unusual finding in gastroesophageal surgery: gastric anthracosis.

We present the case of a patient with an unusual finding of gastric anthracosis during oncological surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma.

Intra-abdominal epithelioid angiosarcoma.

The epithelioid angiosarcoma is a type of sarcoma is very rare (<1 % of all sarcomas). The most frequent location is in extremities, therefore is the axial region less common.Differential diagnosis with other histologic variants of intra-abdominal hepatic and splenic angiosarcomas is essential.