Laparoscopic Choledochotomy in a Solitary Common Duct Stone: A Prospective Study.

Background: Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration has all the advantages of minimal access and is also the most cost effective compared to the other options.

Objective: To study a profile on laparoscopic common bile duct exploration for a single common duct stone.

Methods: A total of 30 consecutive patients with solitary common bile duct stone attending our hospital over a period of one year were enrolled in the study.

Solid pseudopapillary tumor in an ectopic pancreas: an unusual presentation.

Pancreatic solid pseudopapillary tumor is a rare neoplasm. Very rarely, it may arise from an ectopic site. Solid pseudopapillary tumor occurring in the root of mesentery has not been described in the literature.

Abdominal cocoon in an adolescent male.

Abdominal cocoon is an uncommon peritoneal condition characterized by partial or complete encasement of small bowel by a thick rind of fibrous tissue and adhesions. Only few cases of this disease have been reported in world literature. The etiology of this condition is unknown, and most often it is found in adolescent girls from tropical or subtropical countries, and usually diagnosed incidentally on exploration.

An alarming but self-limited case of isolated large spontaneous liver hematoma in pregnancy.

Spontaneous subcapsular liver hematoma is rare but potentially life-threatening complication of pregnancy usually associated with severe preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets). We present here a case of such a large spontaneous liver hematoma presenting in pregnancy, but without other known associated abnormalities, which has not been described before and it resolved on itself without any intervention.

Inferior vena cava injury repair, a successful outcome.

Inferior ver a cava (IVC) injuries are very very infrequent; yet it still happens to be the most frequently injured retroperitoneal vascular structure. Fifty percent of the patients can't even make it to the hospital. Even when half of them manage to attend the hospital the mortality rates for the great vessel injury are still very high perhaps due to the low index of suspicion, delayed or inadequate volume resuscitation, difficulty in diagnosis and also due to some technical problems associated in its repair.