Text Messaging, Telephone, or In-Person Outpatient Visit to the Surgical Clinic: A Randomized Trial.

Introduction: Routine outpatient follow-up visits for surgical patients are a source of strain on health-care resources and patients. With the COVID-19 pandemic adding a new urgency to finding the safest follow-up arrangement, text message follow-up might prove an acceptable alternative to a phone call or an in-person clinic visit.

Methods: An open-label, three-arm, parallel randomized trial was conducted.

Extra-pulmonary primary small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma arising from the duodenum: rare tumor, unusual location.

Small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma is a high-grade carcinoma rarely encountered in extra-pulmonary sites. A 40-year-old lady presented with epigastric pain and was noted to have an ulcerated small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in her duodenum with liver metastases. She underwent palliative chemotherapy but unfortunately passed away.

A complicated case of amyand's hernia involving a perforated appendix and its management using minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery: A case report.

Introduction: Amyand's hernia is a rare condition of inguinal hernia in which the appendix is incarcerated within the hernia sac through the internal ring. Complications include acute appendicitis and perforated appendicitis, which are rare in incidence, accounting for about 0.1% of cases.

Benign cystic mesothelioma of the appendix presenting in a woman: a case report.

Introduction: Benign cystic mesothelioma or peritoneal inclusion cysts are rare benign abdominal tumors usually occurring in females of reproductive age. These cysts present as abdominopelvic pain or masses but are often found on imaging or incidentally at surgery. They are commonly associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, or ovarian cysts.

Subintimal angioplasty as a primary modality in the management of critical limb ischemia: comparison to bypass grafting for aortoiliac and femoropopliteal occlusive disease.

Purpose: To compare the 30-day morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay, and patency rates in patients with critically ischemic limbs treated with subintimal angioplasty (SA) versus standard bypass surgery.

Method: Between October 2001 and August 2003, 137 patients (74 women; mean age 70 years, range 43-92) with critical limb ischemia underwent subintimal angioplasty (n=88) or bypass surgery (n=49) for superficial femoral artery (SFA) or aortoiliac lesions. All patients had lesions classified as C or D according to the TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus.