Serum ferritin level is higher in poorly controlled patients with type 2 diabetes and people without diabetes, aged over 55 years.

Aims: Diabetes mellitus has been increasing in Mongolia. There is also growing concern about the relationship between iron stores and the severity of type 2 diabetes. In this study, we aimed to evaluate serum ferritin level among Mongolian individuals with and without diabetes.

Successful perioperative management of a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura undergoing emergent appendectomy: Report of a case.

Introduction: Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disease characterized by a low platelet count and normal bone marrow. Patients with ITP undergoing surgery are thought to have increased risk for postoperative complications because of their thrombocytopenia.

Presentation Of Case: we report the case of a 66-year-old woman with ITP who required an emergency operation for acute appendicitis associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation.

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for early gastric cancer with versus without prophylactic drainage.

Purpose: Little has been reported on routine prophylactic abdominal drainage after gastrectomy, especially after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG). We conducted this retrospective study on patients undergoing LADG to evaluate the benefit of routine drainage in LADG procedures.

Methods: The subjects were 21 patients who underwent surgery for early gastric cancer (EGC) between January 2004 and March 2008.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with and without abdominal prophylactic drainage.

Aim: As techniques in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) have improved, the role of routine prophylactic abdominal drainage may be limited. A retrospective review was carried out of patients undergoing elective LC to evaluate the benefit of routine drainage in simple uncomplicated procedures.

Methods: This study of 295 patients with cholecystolithiasis or gallbladder polyp included 145 patients who underwent LC with drainage and 150 patients who underwent LC without drainage between 2003 and 2007.

Immunohistochemical Examination of a Resected Advanced Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma Arising in a 29-Year-Old Male without Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

A 29-year-old man with advanced hilar cholangiocarcinoma was successfully treated with an extended right lobectomy. The carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) level was elevated to 939 IU/l, and the pathological findings revealed moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma which involved almost the entire thickness of the hepatic duct and the adjacent liver tissue (T3) and which was associated with lymph node metastasis (N1). It was a stage IIB (T3N1M0) tubular adenocarcinoma according to UICC pathological staging.