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  1. Intraoperative parathyroid hormone (IOPTH) monitoring is a critical surgical adjunct for determining the extent of surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), with reported false-positive and false-negativ...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hisakazu Shindo, Kouichi Yoshimoto, Yusuke Mori, Takashi Fukuda, Seigo Tachibana, Hiroshi Takahashi and Shinya Sato
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:102
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  2. Liposarcomas represent ~9.8–16% of soft tissue sarcomas, with the extremities and retroperitoneum being the primary sites of occurrence. While liposarcoma in the inguinal region is uncommon, few reported cases...

    Authors: Sho Ueda, Takuya Saito, Yasuyuki Fukami, Shunichiro Komatsu, Kenitiro Kaneko and Tsuyoshi Sano
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:101
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  3. Letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, is used to treat breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a complication that can trigger multiple organ failure caused by the release of intracel...

    Authors: Masayuki Kikuchi, Rika Miyabe, Hirokazu Matsushima, Hidenori Kita, Junko Kobayashi, Takashi Ando, Koji Atsuta and Tsunehiro Shintani
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:100
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  4. Most colon cancers that develop in the intestinal tract within the inguinal hernia sac are identified by incarceration. However, treatment methods for these cases vary depending on the pathology. Cases showing...

    Authors: Hiroki Sujino, Hideki Gon, Yota Shimoda, Chie Takishita, Masanobu Enomoto, Shingo Tachibana, Kazuhiko Kasuya and Yuichi Nagakawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:99
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  5. The age of onset of the phyllodes tumor is generally in the late 40 s, and diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy and lactation are rare. We herein present a case of a phyllodes tumor that rapidly increased ...

    Authors: Shiori Tohyama, Yoshiya Horimoto, Yumiko Ushiyama, Ryoko Semba, Shiori Hotchi, Naomi Sugano, Kanako Ogura and Fumi Murakami
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:98
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  6. Indocyanine green fluorescence angiography, a validated noninvasive imaging technique, is used to assess tissue vascularization. Here, we report three infant patients who underwent intraoperative indocyanine g...

    Authors: Naoki Hashizume, Akihiro Yoneda, Genta Ozeki, Takeshi Saito, Michimasa Fujiogi, Motohiro Kano, Yuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Ishimaru, Yutaka Kanamori and Akihiro Fujino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:97
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  7. Myofibromas are rare mesenchymal tumors with a predilection for the head, neck, and oral cavity. Primarily affecting infants and young children, these tumors typically manifest as superficial painless nodules....

    Authors: Nupur Bhatt, Lydia Pan, Tom Ben-Dov and Scott Rickert
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:96
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  8. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and screening colonoscopy has led to a decreasing incidence rate. However, the incidence of CRC is increasing among young people, especially...

    Authors: Takuya Shimogawa, Yukiharu Hiyoshi, Mayuko Ouchi, Keisuke Kosumi, Kojiro Eto, Satoshi Ida, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Yoshifumi Baba, Yuji Miyamoto, Nasa Okazaki, Yuko Miyasato and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:95
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  9. Spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is rare in adults. A T-lymphocyte response is thought to be involved in HCV-RNA clearance. Splenectomy reportedly has a beneficial effect on T cell immu...

    Authors: Toshiro Ogata, Terufumi Sakai, Sho Shibata, Hiroki Kanno, Hiroyuki Nakane, Takeshi Aoyagi, Kazuhiro Koikawa, Yoshihiko Sadakari, Gentaro Hirokata and Masahiko Taniguchi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:94
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  10. APC and MUTYH are both well-known colorectal polyposis causative genes. However, 30–50% of colorectal adenomatous polyposis cases are classified as colonic adenomatous polyposis of unknown etiology and lack ident...

    Authors: Shu Aoyama, Akira Inoue, Yoshinori Kagawa, Takamichi Komori, Yuki Ozato, Yujiro Nishizawa, Tomoki Sugimoto, Hisateru Komatsu, Masashi Hirota, Yasuhiro Miyazaki, Akira Tomokuni, Masaaki Motoori, Hiroaki Fushimi, Gou Yamamoto, Kiwamu Akagi, Kazuhiro Iwase…
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:93
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  11. Mixed medullary and follicular cell-derived thyroid carcinoma (MMFCC) is characterized by the coexistence of follicular and C cell–derived tumour cell populations within the same lesion. Due to its rarity, its...

    Authors: Mei Kadoya, Nobuyasu Suganuma, Yuka Matsubara, Hiroki Takase, Eita Kumagai, Soji Toda, Haruhiko Yamazaki, Katsuhiko Masudo, Satoshi Fujii and Aya Saito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:92
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  12. Even in cancer of unknown primary (CUP), which is rare clinical condition, solitary anterosuperior lymph node (LN) along the common hepatic artery (No.8a LN) enlargement diagnosed as metastatic adenocarcinoma ...

    Authors: Tomonori Morimoto, Shigeo Hisamori, Hiromitsu Kinoshita, Yosuke Yamada, Yuki Teramoto, Takashi Sakamoto, Keiko Kasahara, Shintaro Okumura, Tatsuto Nishigori, Shigeru Tsunoda and Kazutaka Obama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:91
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  13. Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) both result from partial or complete occlusion of a blood vessel by a blood clot. The prognosis of PVT is generally good; however, PVT with VTE, in...

    Authors: Hitoshi Iwasaki, Hideo Uehara, Yugo Fujimoto, Hirofumi Hasuda, Eiji Kusumoto, Yuichi Hisamatsu, Rintaro Yoshida, Yoshihisa Sakaguchi and Tetsuya Kusumoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:90
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  14. Preoperative diagnosis of gallbladder amyloidosis is usually difficult. In our case, the patient exhibited gallbladder dyskinesia, which led us to suspect cholecystic amyloidosis. We were able to safely perfor...

    Authors: Makoto Shinohara, Masakazu Hashimoto, Yoshihito Kitamura, Keigo Nakashima, Michinori Hamaoka, Masashi Miguchi, Toshihiro Misumi, Nobuaki Fujikuni, Satoshi Ikeda, Yasuhiro Matsugu, Yui Hattori, Takashi Nishisaka and Hideki Nakahara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:89
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  15. Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. The best treatment for the AEF due to esophageal carcinoma is still unresolved. Here, we report a rare case of AEF caused by ...

    Authors: Kohei Saisho, Naoki Mori, Masashi Nakagawa, Eiji Nakamura, Yu Tanaka, Hideaki Kaku, Yuya Tanaka, Taro Isobe, Hiroyuki Otsuka, Tomoya Sudo, Hisamune Sakai, Nobuya Ishibashi, Toru Hisaka, Eiki Tayama and Fumihiko Fujita
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:88
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  16. A 61-year-old female was referred to our hospital with a neoplastic lesion in the duodenum. Computed tomography with contrast enhancement revealed a 10-mm tumor in the duodenum. Upper gastrointestinal endoscop...

    Authors: Kiyoshi Narita, Masataka Okuno, Seiji Natsume, Tomonari Asano, Hisafumi Saito, Masashi Negita, Seiji Ito, Koji Komori, Tetsuya Abe, Kazuo Hara, Nozomi Okuno, Waki Hosoda and Yasuhiro Shimizu
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:87
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  17. Complete mesocolic excision (CME) and central vascular detachment are very important procedures in surgery for colorectal cancer. Preoperative and intraoperative assessments of the anatomy of major colorectal ...

    Authors: Kai Goyo, Kei Ishimaru, Taichi Miyaji, Masumi Takamoto, Noriaki Kashu, Katsuya Watanabe, Kenji Takagi, Kyosuke Habu, Yusuke Ogi, Hironori Matsumoto, Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroki Sugishita, Satoshi Akita, Motohira Yoshida, Shigehiro Koga and Taro Oshikiri
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:86
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  18. The majority of small bowel obstructions (SBO) are caused by adhesion due to abdominal surgery. Internal hernias, a very rare cause of SBO, can arise from exposed blood vessels and nerves during pelvic lymphad...

    Authors: Ryota Fujiwara, Masaaki Yano, Makoto Matsumoto, Tomoaki Higashihara, Shimpei Tsudaka, Shinsuke Hashida, Shuji Ichihara and Hiroki Otani
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:85
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  19. Pylephlebitis, a rare and lethal form of portal venous septic thrombophlebitis, often arises from infections in regions drained by the portal vein. Herein, we report a case of peritonitis with portal vein thro...

    Authors: Yu Norimatsu, Nobuyuki Takemura, Kaoru Yoshikawa, Kyoji Ito, Fuyuki Inagaki, Fuminori Mihara, Kazuhiko Yamada and Norihiro Kokudo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:84
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  20. CA19-9 is a tumor marker for gastrointestinal and biliary-pancreatic adenocarcinomas; however, its association with thyroid cancer is unknown. Here, we report a case of CA19-9 producing locally advanced papill...

    Authors: Hiroki Morikawa, Takaaki Oba, Ayaka Kitazawa, Ryoko Iji, Nami Kiyosawa, Masatsugu Amitani, Tadafumi Shimizu, Toshiharu Kanai, Takeshi Uehara and Ken-ichi Ito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:83
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  21. The serum level of Krebs von den Lungen-6 (sKL-6) is a biomarker of interstitial pneumonia and has been reported to be elevated in patients with cancers. However, there have been few cases of gastric cancer (G...

    Authors: Naoe Yanagisawa, Naohiko Koide, Harunari Fukai, Yoshinori Koyama, Yuu Ogihara and Maki Ohya
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:82
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  22. Horseshoe lung is a rare congenital malformation in which the lung protrudes from the mediastinum to the other side. Owing to the high frequency of other fatal cardiovascular complications, it is often diagnos...

    Authors: Chihiro Kagohashi, Yasuyuki Kurihara, Mariko Hanafusa and Kenichi Okubo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:81
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  23. Pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm (PDAA) is a rare, but fatal disease. However, the association between aneurysm size and the risk of rupture remains unclear. There are many options for therapeutic strategie...

    Authors: Sho Fujiwara, Keiichiro Kawamura, Yoshiyuki Nakano, Tetsuo Watanabe and Hiroshi Yamashita
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:80
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  25. The development of immunohistochemical staining has revealed that gastric adenocarcinoma with the gastric phenotype can be divided into the foveolar, fundic gland, and pyloric gland phenotypes. Gastric adenoca...

    Authors: Kaiho Hirata, Shusuke Yagi, Hideki Miyazaki, Kazuhiko Yamada, Naoki Akazawa, Naoki Enomoto, Kyoko Nohara, Chizu Yokoi, Toru Igari and Norihiro Kokudo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:78
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  26. In liver transplant patients with hypoplastic portal vein (PV), when the narrowed segment is extended too deep into the dorsal side of the pancreas, it is difficult and dangerous to reconstruct the interpositi...

    Authors: Shinsuke Sugenoya, Atsuyoshi Mita, Akira Shimizu, Yasunari Ohno, Koji Kubota, Yuichi Masuda, Tsuyoshi Notake and Yuji Soejima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:77
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  28. Robotic-assisted surgery is steadily becoming more prominent. The majority of reports regarding port site hernias (PSHs) have involved laparoscopic procedures. Currently, it is common to suture the fascia at p...

    Authors: Changgi Ahn, Masatsune Shibutani, Kishu Kitayama, Hiroaki Kasashima, Yuichiro Miki, Mami Yoshii, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Tatsuro Tamura, Takahiro Toyokawa, Shigeru Lee and Kiyoshi Maeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:75
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  29. Pancreatic adenosquamous cell carcinoma (PASC) is a relatively rare histological type of pancreatic malignancy, and preoperative diagnosis is difficult because of its rarity. PASC accounts for 1–4% of all panc...

    Authors: Nao Kitasaki, Tomoyuki Abe, Masashi Inoue, Marino Teshima, Masataka Nakagawa, Masatoshi Kochi, Ryuichi Hotta and Kazuhiro Toyota
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:74
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  30. Duodenal duplication cysts (DDC) are rare duplications of the alimentary tract. Their treatment depends on their size and location. A radical treatment is total resection, if possible. However, partial excisio...

    Authors: Yoichi Nakagawa, Hiroo Uchida, Satoshi Makita, Takahisa Tainaka, Akinari Hinoki, Chiyoe Shirota, Wataru Sumida, Hizuru Amano, Akihiro Yasui, Yoko Kano, Takuya Maeda, Daiki Kato and Yousuke Gohda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:73
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  32. Docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (DCF) chemotherapy is reportedly an effective treatment strategy for squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA). However, studies regarding its use in Japanese patients...

    Authors: Ryozan Naito, Takuya Shiraishi, Nobuhiro Hosoi, Takayoshi Watanabe, Ikuma Shioi, Yuta Shibasaki, Nobuhiro Nakazawa, Katsuya Osone, Takuhisa Okada, Akihiko Sano, Makoto Sakai, Hiroomi Ogawa, Makoto Sohda, Ken Shirabe and Hiroshi Saeki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:71
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  33. Nipple adenoma is a relatively rare benign disease. Clinically, it often presents with nipple erosions, and it should be differentiated from Paget’s disease.

    Authors: Shuko Ono, Masumi Tanaka, Yasuteru Yoshinaga, Toshihiko Satou and Mikiko Aoki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:70
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  34. Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a genomic imprinting disorder caused by diverse genetic and/or epigenetic disorders of chromosome 11p15.5. BWS presents with a variety of clinical features, including overg...

    Authors: Yo Sato, Yusuke Watanabe, Takafumi Morisaki, Saori Hayashi, Yoshiki Otsubo, Yurina Ochiai, Kimihisa Mizoguchi, Yuka Takao, Mai Yamada, Yusuke Mizuuchi, Masafumi Nakamura and Makoto Kubo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:69
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  35. Occupational cholangiocarcinoma is associated with exposure to organic solvents, such as dichloromethane (DCM) and 1,2-dichloropropane (DCP). This report describes a case of occupational cholangiocarcinoma det...

    Authors: Naoko Kounami, Sakae Maeda, Akihiro Kitagawa, Hideo Tomihara, Yuki Ushimaru, Nobuyoshi Ohara, Tomohira Takeoka, Mitsunobu Imasato, Ryohei Kawabata, Shingo Noura, Yumiko Yasuhara and Atsushi Miyamoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:68
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  36. Among the various anomalies of the biliary system, a double common bile duct with ectopic drainage in the stomach is rare. Furthermore, ectopic bile ducts are extremely rare in gastric cancers.

    Authors: Kazuaki Hashimoto, Tsukasa Ihara, Yuichiro Maruyama, Shinichi Tomisaki and Hiroshi Harada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:67
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  37. Inguinal herniation of the urinary bladder is uncommon and those descending into the scrotum are even rarer. Although open anterior repair has been used for inguinal bladder hernia, the efficacy of laparoscopi...

    Authors: Hitomi Zotani, Tetsu Yamamoto, Ryoji Hyakudomi, Kiyoe Takai, Takahito Taniura, Kazunari Ishitobi, Noriyuki Hirahara, Yoshitsugu Tajima and Masaaki Hidaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:66
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  38. Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of the appendix are rare and are often discovered incidentally during surgery for acute appendicitis or other unrelated conditions (Modlin et al. in Gastroenterology 128:1717–1751,...

    Authors: Abdullah S. Al-Darwish, Waad Rashaid Alsubaie, Waleed AlShammari, Muath AlaSheikh and Muath AlRashed
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:65
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  39. Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (PSC) is a rare and highly malignant type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), for which the treatment of choice is surgery. For peripheral PSC growing outward and invading th...

    Authors: Yingzhi Zhao, Shaohua Xie, Haoqian Zheng, Kaixin Zhang, Xin Gao, Wenwu Liu, Wei Dai, Hongfan Yu, Qiuling Shi, Bin Hu, Qiang Li, Tianpeng Xie and Xing Wei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:64
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  40. An ectopic bile duct opening into the stomach is a rare congenital anomaly of the biliary system, and thus, there are few case reports with gastric ulcer hemorrhage. Herein, we presented a case of ectopic bile...

    Authors: Yuiko Nagasawa, Masayuki Ohta, Yuki Shitomi, Hiroshi Satoh and Masanori Aramaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:63
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:79

  41. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the stomach is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm. We present a case of gastric submucosal tumor (SMT) where the final diagnosis was IMT.

    Authors: Taku Hattori, Yutaka Tanizawa, Tadakazu Shimoda, Yusuke Koseki, Kenichiro Furukawa, Keiichi Fujiya, Daisuke Aizawa, Takashi Sugino, Masanori Terashima and Etsuro Bando
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:62
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  42. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare connective tissue disease characterized by subsequent ossification of skeletal muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other fibrous tissues. The ossif...

    Authors: Megumi Kobayashi, Misako Hirai, Makoto Suzuki and Akira Sasaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:61
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  43. Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a genetic disorder that causes fragility of the systemic connective tissues. Of the 13 subtypes, vascular EDS (vEDS) is associated with abnormalities in collagen production, res...

    Authors: Moegi Yoshizaki, Yasuko Matsuo, Satoshi Yasuda, Shunsuke Doi, Takeshi Sakata, Minako Nagai, Kota Nakamura, Yuichiro Kohara, Shohei Toyoda, Toshihiro Tanaka and Masayuki Sho
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:60
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  44. Celiac axis stenosis (CAS) is frequently observed in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). This poses challenges because of the potential disruption of the hepatic arterial blood flow.

    Authors: Susumu Doita, Hideki Aoki, Hiroki Kajioka, Kohji Tanakaya and Kenji Kawamoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:59
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  45. Congenital esophageal stenosis (CES) is a rare condition. We encountered a case of esophageal cancer that developed in an adult with persistent CES. Although many studies have investigated the therapeutic outc...

    Authors: Yushi Fujiwara, Hidehiko Kitagami, Tomohiro Kikkawa, Keita Sakashita, Takaya Kusumi and Yasunori Nishida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:58
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  46. Kirschner wires are widely used in trauma surgery. Their migration into the pericardium is a rare but often fatal phenomenon, requiring urgent management.

    Authors: Olivier Georges, Florence De Dominicis, Malek Ben Rahal, Jules Le Pessot, Pascal Berna, Osama Abou Arab and Christophe Beyls
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:57
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  47. It has been recently recognized that pulmonary cyst may develop after pulmonary resection, causing various symptoms. Most previously reported cases were after upper lobectomy in patients with chronic obstructi...

    Authors: Satona Tanaka, Naoki Date, Yoshito Imamura, Takafumi Kabuto, Hidenao Kayawake, Hideki Motoyama, Akihiro Aoyama and Hirohi Date
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:56
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  48. Combined resection of lung cancer and the thoracic aortic wall with thoracic aortic endografting has been reported. However, whether the resection and endografting should be performed simultaneously or in two ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Komatsu, Nao Furukawa, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Atsutaka Aratame, Toshio Baba and Kazunori Okabe
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:55
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  49. Epipericardial fat necrosis (EFN) is a rare disease in which local inflammation and necrosis occur in the adipose tissue surrounding the heart, particularly epicardial fat. Few cases of EFN in which surgical r...

    Authors: Ryusei Yoshino, Masaki Nakatsubo, Nanami Ujiie, Akane Ito, Nana Yoshida, Naoko Aoki and Masahiro Kitada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:54
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  50. Postoperative lymphatic leakage is a complication of ineffective conservative treatment for retroperitoneal mass. Herein, we report a case of lymphatic leakage that arose after retroperitoneal tumor resection ...

    Authors: Go Kinoshita, Koichi Morisaki, Daisuke Okamoto, Takehiko Aoyagi, Shinichiro Yoshino, Kentaro Inoue and Tomoharu Yoshizumi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2024 10:53
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