World J Gastrointest Surg
September 2022
Background: In orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) recipients, median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is considered a risk factor for hepatic arterial thrombosis (HAT), which is dreadful for OLT recipients. Different alternative surgical procedures have been proposed to overcome the impact of MALS on transplantation, but clinical evidence is still scarce.
Aim: To evaluate the feasible surgical management of MALS to reduce complications in OLT patients.
World J Clin Cases
January 2021
Background: Sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation (SANT) is a rare disease of the spleen. It has unique pathological features and mimics splenic tumor on radiological imaging.
Case Summary: A 47-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a splenic mass on abdominal ultrasound.
Medicine (Baltimore)
September 2020
Rationale: Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEH) is a rare vascular tumor of the liver with malignant potential. It can be of solitary type, multifocal type, or diffuse type. Although there are some characteristic features on radiologic imaging, the definitive diagnosis of HEH is based on histopathology.
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