Publications by authors named "S Panidis"
Colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy, with around half of patients developing liver metastases. Hepatectomy is the preferred treatment, but its success depends on several factors, including surgical margins. Various surgical margins have been suggested to achieve optimal results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP) is the acute inflammation of pancreatic parenchyma, most commonly due to alcohol abuse or cholelithiasis. The treatment can be either conservative or invasive, including a variety of techniques; however, it has not yet been established if the intervention should be early or if it should be delayed. The aim of this review is to investigate the optimal time for intervention in ANP.
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- Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis caused by autoimmune dysfunction, classified into three subtypes, with type 1 and type 2 responding well to corticosteroids.
- A case study presented a patient with symptoms resembling pancreatic cancer, where imaging suggested obstruction, leading to a Whipple surgery; however, the pathology indicated AIP type 1 instead.
- This highlights the importance of thorough preoperative assessments to avoid unnecessary surgeries, as AIP can be misdiagnosed, emphasizing its relevance in clinical practice.
BACKGROUND Pancreatic calculi (PC) or pancreatolithiasis refers to the presence of stones in the main pancreatic duct (MPD), side branches, or parenchyma of the pancreas. It is highly associated with chronic pancreatitis (CP), and is present in 50-90% of those patients. The stone formation can be attributed to a diversity of factors, all of them leading to obstruction in the duct, hypertension of its distal part, increased intraductal and parenchymal pressure, and inflammation, causing the standard symptom, epigastric pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInguinal hernias are a widespread condition, responsible for a large number of acute abdomen cases. Typically, indirect, rather than direct, hernias lead to complications, as a consequence of their narrower hernial defect. We report a 71-year-old male patient with a rather rare incidence of a direct incarcerated hernia who presented with acute pain in the left inguinal area at a university general hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2017.
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