A novel percutaneous transhepatic treatment of a benign bile duct stricture - a pilot study.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness and outcome of repeated percutaneous transhepatic balloon dilatation combined with targeted intramucosal corticosteroid injection in patients with benign biliary stricture.

Methods: This single-center pilot study, conducted between February 2014 and June 2016, involved five patients with benign biliary stricture (4 men and 1 woman, mean age 58.2 years).

Basaloid carcinoma of the pancreas--clinicopathological presentation and oncogenetic snapshot of a rare entity.

We report a case of basaloid pancreatic carcinoma with clinical, pathological, and genomic data. The 73-year-old male patient had jaundice, acholic stool, diarrhea, weight loss, and a large, painless gall bladder. His GGT was highly elevated.

[A case of glucose-sensitive insulinoma accompanied by slightly elevated serum insulin levels and persisting convulsions after the surgically removed neuroendocrine tumor].

Insul(in)oma is a usually solitary or, in some cases, multifocal tumor of pancreatic beta cells. It may be a component of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. or von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.

Impact of positive intraabdominal lavage cytology on the long-term prognosis of colorectal cancer patients.

Background: Our aim was to investigate the presence of free cancer cells found in lavage cytology specimens taken from the proximity of tumors during the course of curative open and laparoscopic colorectal resections and then examine and compare the long-term disease outcomes in cases of negative and positive cytology. Based on the results, we were hoping to identify the place of peritumoral lavage cytology among prognostic factors for disease recurrence.

Methods: Between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007 intraoperative peritoneal lavage cytology was performed in 145 patients who underwent curative colorectal procedures.