BACKGROUND Postoperative abdominal infections are an important and heterogeneous health challenge.Many samll abdominal abscesses are resolved with antibiotics,but larger or symptomatic abscesses may require procedural...
BACKGROUND Duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection(DPPHR)is the choice of surgery for benign or low-grade malignant tumors of the pancreatic head.Laparoscopic DPPHR(LDPPHR)procedure can be improved by preoperati...
BACKGROUND Hepatic colon carcinoma invading the duodenum is not common in clinical practice.Surgical treatment of colonic hepatic cancer that invades the duodenum is difficult,and the surgical risk is high.AIM To disc...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82074214;the Research Fund Project of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University,No.2019ZY02.
BACKGROUND No known case of neuroendocrine tumour(NET)with schwannoma has been reported.CASE SUMMARY A 63-year-old female presented to our hospital with nausea and vomiting.Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a ...
Supported by Grant from Chonnam National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute,No.CRI17004-1.
BACKGROUND Dedifferentiated liposarcoma(DDLPS)is an extremely rare neoplasm that exhibits various morphologies.The tumor is characterized by immunoreactivity to MDM2 and CDK4 and can be confirmed by detecting MDM2 amp...
Supported by Project of Taizhou Science and Technology Department,No.1701KY36;Project of Taizhou University,No.2018PY057;Project of Taizhou Central Hospital,No.2019KT003.
BACKGROUND Adult duodenal intussusception rarely occurs,and the majority of duodenal adenomas are located in the descending part of the duodenum.Therefore,adenomas in the horizontal part of the duodenum presenting as ...
BACKGROUND A penetrating injury of a hollow viscus is an obvious indication for an exploratory laparotomy,but is not typically an indication for endoscopic treatment.CASE SUMMARY A 27-year-old man visited the emergenc...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81270506 and No.81570555;Clinical Research Physician Program of Tongji Medical College,No.HUST(2017)
The descending duodenum is rarely involved in Schistosoma japonicum(S. japonicum) infection. Here, we report a case of acute Schistosoma infection, which presented with abdominal pain, abdominal distension and irregul...
Gangliocytic paraganglioma(GP) is a rare tumor of uncertain origin most often located in the second portion of the duodenum. It is composed of three cellular components: Epithelioid endocrine cells, spindlelike/susten...
Crohn's disease(CD) can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to anus. However, gastroduodenal CD is rare with a frequency reported to range between 0.5% and 4.0%. Most patients with gastroduod...