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J Surg Case Rep
October 2024
Department of Abdominal Surgery, CHC Groupe Santé, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Pancreaticoduodenectomy after esophagectomy is a challenging procedure given the need to preserve the vascularization of the gastric plasty. We describe a case of a modified Longmire III procedure in a 68-year-old patient who underwent an esophagectomy with gastric conduit reconstruction in 2019 for esophageal adenocarcinoma. Two years later, an adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater was diagnosed, necessitating pancreaticoduodenectomy with preservation of the gastric conduit.
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November 2015
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, Poland.
Introduction: Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is extremely rare in children; it usually occurs in young women between 18 and 35 years of age. It comprises less than 3% of pancreatic tumors. It is of low malignancy; however, it may be locally aggressive.
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December 2012
Center for Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Memory deficits are prominent features of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The genetic architecture underlying these memory deficits likely involves the combined effects of multiple genetic variants operative within numerous biological pathways. In order to identify functional pathways associated with memory impairment, we performed a pathway enrichment analysis on genome-wide association data from 742 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatogastroenterology
June 2012
Department of General Surgery, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Interventional procedure via percutaneous transhepatic route is often performed, as an initial treatment, in patients with benign bilioenteric anastomotic stricture. However, surgical management is required in most cases in which radiological intervention is unsuccessful. In this report, we describe a case of a 67-year-old woman with recurrent bilioenteric anastomotic stricture, accompanying bilateral hepatolitiasis after several times of transhepatic interventions.
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January 2012
Department of Thoracic, General and Oncologic Surgery, Medical University, Łódź.
Unlabelled: Pancreatic tumours are a serious medical and social issue. Patients come to the doctor too late, when the disease is well advanced. The most frequently applied method of surgical treatment is pancreatoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure).
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