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S Afr J Surg
October 2024
Department of General Surgery, MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital, India.
A 49-year-old male with no comorbidities presented with acute colicky lower abdominal pain for one day, alongside three months of intermittent abdominal pain, loose stools, and melena. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan revealed an intussusception. During exploratory laparotomy, an ileo-ileal intussusception with a 3 cm polypoid lesion 10 cm from the ileo-caecal junction was found.
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August 2024
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Gastrointestinal follicular lymphoma (GI-FL) is an uncommon non-Hodgkin lymphoma that affects the gastrointestinal tract. It typically occurs within the duodenum with the appearance of multiple nodules. Treatment options, depending on stage and grade of the tumor, include aggressive chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy, surgical or endoscopic resection, or simply monitoring as focal disease may be indolent.
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June 2024
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm most often arising from the pleura and rarely in extra-pleural locations, including the gastrointestinal tract. We describe two cases of a SFT presenting as submucosal colonic lesion and review the literature on this lesion. One submucosal lesion was localized in the cecum and was 10 mm in size.
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May 2024
Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Ansan, South Korea. Electronic address:
Background: Colonic diverticulitis (CD), typically seen in the elderly of Western countries, is increasingly prevalent worldwide, yet data on CD in children and adolescents are scarce. This study explores the characteristics of CD in this younger demographic.
Methods: In a multicenter, retrospective review, 104 patients under 20 years diagnosed with CD at four Korean tertiary hospitals from June 2003 to December 2020 were analyzed.
Acta Clin Croat
April 2023
Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
We present a case of a patient with simultaneous cervical lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and cecum neuroendocrine tumor (NET). A 45-year-old male patient with the diagnosis of metastatic NET of the cecum underwent fine needle aspiration (FNA) of a positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG PET) positive nodule in the left thyroid lobe. Due to FNA finding suspect of PTC, the patient underwent total thyroidectomy with central neck dissection.
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