Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are rare with an incident rate of 5 cases per million individuals. Tuberous sclerosis complex is an autosomal dominant disease. This disease involves multisystem and occurs in one out of every 6,000-10,000 individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Ampullary adenocarcinoma is a rare entity during pregnancy. It accounts for 0.5% of all gastrointestinal malignancies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Rapid weight loss following bariatric surgery is associated with high incidence of gallstones and complications that may need bilioenteric diversion. This presents a specific challenge in the management of this group of patients.
Case Presentation: A 37 years old female underwent a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in 2008 for morbid obesity.
Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther
February 2012
The association of endodermal sinus tumor, known also as yolk sac tumor, of the mediastinum with hemophagocytic syndrome is exceedingly rare with only a few cases on record. We report a 24-year-old male who had a large mediastinal germ cell tumor, proven to be an endodermal sinus tumor on biopsy. The patient developed pancytopenia and coagulopathy related to associated hemophagocytic syndrome, with a fatal outcome.
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July 2010
Combined ductal and vascular injuries are awesome complications of pancreatic injury. We report on a 29-year-old male unrestrained driver who sustained a blunt abdominal injury from the steering wheel in a high velocity head-on car collision. He developed a pancreatic fistula, portosplenic venous thrombosis and sinistral portal hypertension as a result of complete duct disruption at the pancreatic neck.
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