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J Clin Med
December 2024
Department of Pediatric Surgery and Orthopedics, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, 540142 Târgu Mureș, Romania.
Childhood extranodal B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are often caused by Burkitt's lymphoma (BL). Treatment usually involves intensive polychemotherapy, and recent prospective trials show significantly improved outcomes. Surgery primarily involves conducting biopsies; ablative interventions are not recommended.
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December 2024
Department of General Surgery, Souss Massa University Hospital Center, Agadir, Morocco.
Feeding jejunostomy is a simple and common procedure used to provide enteral nutrition. Acute intestinal intussusception on a jejunostomy tube is a rare complication that can have catastrophic consequences and often requires urgent surgical intervention. We report the case of a 45-year-old female patient with a stenosing hypopharyngeal tumor leading to complete aphagia.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Toyama 1-21-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Acute heart failure due to aortic regurgitation (AR) is a severe comorbidity of type A acute aortic dissection (AAD). Valve-sparing aortic root replacement is typically performed when the aortic valve remains intact.
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old male presented to our hospital with chest pain.
Front Pediatr
December 2024
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Wuhu, Anhui, China.
In children, 90% cases of intussusception are idiopathic and the remaining 10% are attributed to underlying diseases (most commonly due to Meckel's diverticulum, polyps then either duplication cyst or mesentery cysts, and rarely due to Burkitt's lymphoma). The occurrence of acute intestinal intussusception caused by Burkitt's lymphoma in children under the age of 5 is exceedingly rare. Burkitt's lymphoma presents with diverse clinical manifestations, often leading to the identification of an abdominal tumor in pediatric patients.
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January 2025
Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor 6300, Ethiopia.
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