Min Li, MM, Shuodong Wu, MD, Yu Tian, MD, Yongnan Li, MM, Hong Yu, MD, Yongsheng Chen, MM Department of Biliary and Vascular Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Our aim was to report a case regarding combined resection of a hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatic cyst, gallbladder, and appendix. Case Description: The […]
Ramon Vilallonga, MD, PhD, Jacques Himpens, MD Division of Bariatric Surgery, AZ St. Blasius, Dendermonde, Belgium (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Many different medical and surgical modalities have been described for the treatment of late strictures after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), including observation, endoscopic dilatations, seromyotomy (SM), and wedge resection of the sleeve stomach including the stricture. Strictures
Giulia Giovanardi, MD, Stephane Oden, MD, Haitham Khalil, MD, Loic Marpeau, MD, PhD, Renato Seracchioli, MD, Horace Roman, MD, PhD Minimally Invasive Gynaecological Surgery Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (Drs. Giovanardi, Seracchioli). Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France (Drs. Oden, Khalil, Marpeau, Roman). ABSTRACT Introduction: The use of electric tissue morcellators
Aideen Campbell, MBBS, and Gary K. Atkin, MD Department of Surgery, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Barnet, UK (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: An intersigmoid hernia is a type of internal hernia and is a rare cause of small-bowel obstruction. It occurs because of a congenital peritoneal defect at the root of the sigmoid mesocolon
Satoshi Yokoyama, MD, Daisuke Ito, Akinori Sekioka, Nao Kawaguchi, Harumi Yamada, Michio Kuwahara, Hirofumi Utsunomiya, Shiro Uyama Department of Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Society, Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Portomesenteric venous thrombosis (PMVT) is a rare and often fatal disease that is difficult to diagnose. The symptoms are nonspecific, and diagnosis and initial
Haider Mahdi, MD, Jessica Woessner, MD, Samantha Gonzalez-Ramos, MD, Maral Malekzadeh, DO, Mehdi Moslemi-Kebria, MD Gynecologic Oncology Division, Ob/Gyn and Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA (Drs. Mahdi, Woessner, Gonzalez-Ramos, Moslemi-Kebria). Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY, USA (Dr. Malekzadeh). ABSTRACT Introduction: Colonic resection in gynecologic surgery, most commonly in the field of gynecologic
Christian Hernandez Murcia, MD, Pedro Garcia Quintero, MD, Jorge Rabaza, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Anthony Gonzalez, MD, FACS, FASMBS Department of General and Bariatric Surgery, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, USA (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Gastric volvulus occurs primarily when the stomach suffers torsion on itself due to laxity, elongation, or agenesis of the stomach ligamentous attachments
Anuradha R. Bhama, MD, Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, Hui Sen Chong, MD Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Operative intervention for retroperitoneal hematomas is rarely indicated, and treatment is usually conservative, including observation, transfusion, correction of coagulopathy, and coil embolization. Case and Technique Description: A 75-year-old man
Yusuke Tanaka, MD, Shinsuke Koyama, MD, PhD, Yasuhiko Shiki, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Osaka, Japan (all authors). ABSTRACT Ovarian cyst torsion is a well-known cause of acute abdominal pain in female patients. However, torsion of a normal ovary is extremely rare and predominantly occurs in premenarchal female patients. The objective of
Mohammed A. Bawahab, MD, FRCS (Canada), FASMBS Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Khalid, University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. ABSTRACT Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) is a well-established bariatric surgical procedure. LAGB surgery is associated long term with a significant chance for reoperation within 10 years of band placement; 2 causes of reoperation are band migration and
