Retained surgical item (Gossypiboma): a case report and literature review.

Unlabelled: Retained surgical item is a known incidental surgical complication that is a mass of a sponge. This cotton matrix is left behind in the body cavity after surgical procedures. It is an incidental, rare medical error.

A rare cause of acute intestinal obstruction: Ileo-sigmoid knotting type IIA.

Ileosigmoid Knotting is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction which occurs as a consequence of ileum or sigmoid colon wrapping around the base of each other resulting in double closed-loop bowel obstruction. We report a case of a 52-year-old male who presented in the emergency department with sudden onset of abdominal pain and vomiting. On clinical examination, the abdomen was tender and distended.

A sudden hemorrhage in the esophageal duplication cyst: A rare cause of acute dysphagia in an adult.

A 42-year-old male pediatrics physician was admitted with a history of acute chest pain and sudden severe dysphagia to solids and liquids. He denied any history of abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspnea, nausea weight loss. He could not even swallow saliva.

Mesenteric panniculitis various presentations and management: A single institute ten years, experience.

Mesenteric Panniculitis (MP) is predominately a disease of the small bowel of unknown etiology. Characterized by Fibrosis and chronic inflammation of fatty tissue of the mesentery in the small bowel. It is commonly diagnosed based on computed tomography (CT scan) with IV contrast and biopsies in equivocal cases.

Operative safety and oncologic outcomes in rectal cancer based on the level of inferior mesenteric artery ligation: a stratified analysis of a large Korean cohort.

Purpose: To compare high and low inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) ligation in a large number of patients, and investigate the short-term and long-term outcomes.

Methods: This retrospective study compared outcomes between high IMA ligation and low IMA ligation with dissection of lymph nodes (LNs) around the IMA origin. A total of 1,213 patients underwent elective low anterior resection with double-stapling anastomosis for stage I-III rectal cancer located ≥6 cm from the anal verge (835 patients underwent IMA ligation at the IMA origin; 378 patients underwent IMA ligation directly distal to the root of the left colic artery along with dissection of LNs around the IMA origin).