Publications by authors named "Rafael Cerdan-Pascual"
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- It is often discovered incidentally during endoscopies or imaging since most cases are small and do not cause symptoms, but larger or symptomatic lesions may need surgical removal.
- A patient who experienced vomiting and lack of appetite ultimately required surgery for peptic ulcer perforation, and further complications led to a decision for antrectomy, revealing Brunner's gland hyperplasia through pathology results.
Intracholecystic papillary neoplasia (IPN) is a rare entity rarely described in the literature, of incidental anatomopathological diagnosis in a cholecystectomy specimen that presents a premalignant behavior, with progression to carcinoma in more than 50% of cases. In the absence of an invasive component, clinical follow-up is recommended, without associating another surgical gesture, with a 5-year prognosis (90% survival). We present a case of a patient with an incidental diagnosis of NPIC after laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to presenting a gallbladder polyp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intestinal malrotation is a congenital anomaly of the intestinal rotation and fixation, and usually occurs in the neonatal age.
Objective: Description of a clinical case associated with acute occlusive symptoms.
Clinical Case: A case of intestinal malrotation is presented in a previously asymptomatic woman of 46 years old with an intestinal obstruction, with radiology and surgical findings showing an absence of intestinal rotation.
Background: Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is an infrequent lesion usually found in polytrauma cases or after violent attacks. Patients are usually males between 20 and 50 years old, and car accidents are the main causes in Europe. Preoperative diagnosis must be based on a high level of suspicion and appropriate radiological explorations.
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