Hepatogastroenterology
December 2006
Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taiwan.
Background/aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracies of using ultrasonography in determining the levels and causes of gastrointestinal obstruction in the emergency department.
Methodology: 229 patients who visited the emergency department with the clinical impression of gastrointestinal obstruction were studied. The gastrointestinal tract was systematically scanned from the anatomically fixed portions to movable portions in the peritoneum by "bisection approximation method".
J Med Ultrason (2001)
March 2004
Department of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Aichi, Japan.
A 50-year-old man was admitted to our institution for upper abdominal pain. The diagnosis was chronic pancreatitis. A pseudocyst 3 cm in diameter had been detected in the head of the pancreas by ultrasonography a year and a half earlier.
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February 1988
Department of Surgery, Nagoya City Josai Hospital, Japan.
A 43-year-old woman complaining of upper abdominal pain was referred to our clinic. Well movable mass was detected in the right hypochondria region by palpation. Three years before, she underwent cholecystectomy and choledochotomy for cholelithiasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetroperitoneal, mesenteric, and omental cysts are rare abdominal tumors occurring in approximately one of 105,000 hospitalized patients. These cysts have a similar pathogenesis that primarily may be ectopic lymphatic tissue. Retroperitoneal and mesenteric cysts can occur anywhere in the area between the duodenum and rectum but are most common in the small-bowel mesentery, especially the ileum.
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