A rare posterior mediastinal mass: chordoma.

A 72-year-old female presented with 2 years of pro-gradient pain in the upper thoracic spine radiating to the left arm and leg. MRI revealed a 2.7 × 2.

Complete Jejunal Transection After Blunt Abdominal Trauma: A Case Report.

Introduction: Isolated complete transection of the small bowel is extremely rare in blunt abdominal trauma. If it occurs, it is often associated with high-energy impact, as seen in motor vehicle accidents and falls from heights. In this case, a trivial trauma due to a handlebar injury caused a complete transection of the middle jejunum.

Appendicitis after laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy-coincidence or complication.

Diagnosis of appendicitis, particularly in young women, may be challenging. In case of abdominal pain in the postoperative period of laparoscopic surgery, one should not only think of complications such as bleeding and injury of the bowel but also such as acute appendicitis. We report a case of a 26-year-old female patient with a post-laparoscopic acute appendicitis with appendicolithiasis 3 days after a laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy during which the appendix appeared inconspicuous.

Physical and psychosocial outcome in morbidly obese patients with and without bariatric surgery: a 4 1/2-year follow-up.

Background: Morbidly obese patients show high somatic and psychiatric co-morbidity. Bariatric surgery is accepted as the obesity treatment with the greatest long-term success. There is growing evidence that follow-up studies should address somatic as well as psychosocial conditions of patients undergoing bariatric surgery and non-operatively treated patients.