Angelo Iossa, MD, Fausto Fiocca, MD, Mario Corona, MD, Giuseppe Cavallaro, MD, PhD, Fabrizio Cereatti, MD, Mario Rizzello, MD, PhD, Gianfranco Silecchia, MD, PhD Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Division of General Surgery and Bariatric Center of Excellence “ICOT,” Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy (Drs. Iossa, Cavallaro, Cereatti, Rizzello, Silecchia). Department of […]
Qiuqi Angela Shan, MD, Jon K. Hathaway, MD, PhD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana (both authors). ABSTRACT Intra-abdominal adhesions are a common complication of abdominal surgery and can lead to further complications including bowel obstruction, infertility, and pain. We describe a novel technique of performing transvaginal laparoscopic lysis
Sung Pil Yun, MD, Jae Hun Kim, MD, Hyung Il Seo, MD, PhD, Sung Jin Park, MD Department of Surgery, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, South Korea (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Littoral cell angioma of the spleen is an extremely rare primary vascular tumor. Case Description: We report a case of littoral
B. Jakub Wilhelm, MD, Anai Hamasaki, MD, Leopoldo M. Baccaro, MD, Stanley Ogu, MD, Artun Aksade, MD, FACS Easton Hospital, Department of Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Lipomas of the intestinal tract are rare, but they present as the third most common cause of intestinal neoplasms. Most
Jonathan B. Yuval, MD, Katya Chapchay, MD, Haggi Mazeh, MD Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (all authors). ABSTRACT Although rare, complications can arise during the establishment of pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopic surgery. These include injury to blood vessels, hollow viscera, solid organs, and CO2 embolism. We report a case of trauma to
Christoph Castellani, MD, Georg Singer, MD, Manfred Ratschek, MD, Erich Sorantin, MD, Florian Friedmacher, MD, Holger Till, MD Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery (Drs Castellani, Singer, Friedmacher, Till), Department of Pathology (Dr Ratschek), Department of Radiology (Dr Sorantin), Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria. ABSTRACT Introduction: Adrenal cysts are rare findings, with an age peak
Sotirios Nicholas Markuly, DO, Charles E. Miller, MD, Kyle Szela OB/GYN Hospitalist, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, IL, USA (Dr. Markuly). Director, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA and Director, AAGL/SRS Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, USA (Dr. Miller).
Shen-Lin Wang, MD, Kung-Chen Ho, MD, Chuan-Yen Wei, MD, Shih-Ping Cheng, MD, PhD, Tsang-Pai Liu, MD Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital and Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan (Drs Wang, Ho, Wei, Cheng, and Liu); Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan (Drs Cheng and Liu). ABSTRACT Obturator hernias are rare, and
Sergio Carandina, MD, Perrine Mathonet, MD, Guy Bernard Cadière, MD, PhD Department of Digestive and Metabolic Surgery, Jean Verdier Hospital, Paris XIII University-University Hospitals of Paris Seine Saint-Denis, Paris, France (Dr. Carandina). Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium (Drs. Mathonet, Cadière). ABSTRACT Background: Brunner’s gland hamartoma (BGH)
Yasoo Sugiura, MD, Keisuke Kubota, MD, PhD, Masayuki Kojima, MD, PhD, Nobuhiro Nitori, MD, PhD, Etsuo Nemoto, MD, PhD, Toshinori Hashizume, MD, PhD, Shizuka Kaseda, MD, PhD, Yoshiaki Sugiura, MD, PhD Department of Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kanagawa National Hospital, Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. (Drs Yasoo Sugiura, Nemoto, Hashizume, and Kaseda); Department of
