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  1. Undifferentiated carcinoma of the biliary tree is extremely rare, and biliary undifferentiated carcinoma mostly originates from the gallbladder. We herein present a case of anaplastic undifferentiated carcinom...

    Authors: Masayuki Akita, Eri Maeda, Ryo Ishida, Tatsuya Morikawa, Tohru Nishimura, Koichiro Abe, Akihito Kozuki, Tomohiro Tanaka, Yukihiro Imai and Kunihiko Kaneda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:14

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  2. It is quite rare for breast cancer to metastasize to the kidney with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava.

    Authors: Ayako Nagata, Yoshiaki Shinden, Yuki Nomoto, Hazuki Saho, Akihiro Nakajo, Koji Minami, Yuichi Kumagae, Mari Kirishima, Tetsuhiro Owaki and Takao Ohtsuka

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:13

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  3. Because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, preoperative screenings for COVID-19 infection are often performed in many institutions. Some patients are diagnosed with COVID-19 infection by anti...

    Authors: Akiharu Kimura, Nobuhiro Morinaga, Wataru Wada, Kyoichi Ogata, Takayuki Okuyama, Hiroyuki Kato, Makoto Sohda, Ken Shirabe and Hiroshi Saeki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:12

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  4. Acquired jejunal diverticula are relatively rare conditions. While mostly asymptomatic, they can occasionally cause life-threatening complications requiring surgical treatment. We herein report a case of hemor...

    Authors: Sayumi Kurita, Kazuo Kitagawa, Naoki Toya, Mutsumi Kaji, Satoshi Yoshioka, Yuki Hiramoto, Shuichi Fujioka, Naoto Takahashi and Ken Eto

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:11

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  5. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a heterogeneous group of genetic autosomal recessive diseases that cause severe cholestasis, which progresses to cirrhosis and liver failure, in infancy ...

    Authors: Kazunori Masahata, Takehisa Ueno, Kazuhiko Bessho, Tasuku Kodama, Ryo Tsukada, Ryuta Saka, Yuko Tazuke, Shuji Miyagawa and Hiroomi Okuyama

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:10

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  6. Sciatic hernias are rare pelvic floor hernias that occur through the sciatic foramen and often present as abdominal or pelvic pain, particularly in women. Historically, they were repaired using an open approac...

    Authors: Mutsumi Fujimoto, Masashi Miguchi, Hiroshi Mitsuta, Satoshi Ikeda, Hideki Nakahara and Toshiyuki Itamoto

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:9

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  7. Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a rare phenomenon in which primary tumor cells metastasize hematogenously into another tumor. Herein, we report an extremely rare case of a renal cell carcinoma metastasis into a p...

    Authors: Shunryo Minezaki, Takeyuki Misawa, Hiroyuki Tsukayama, Makoto Shibuya, Keita Wada, Keiji Sano, Makoto Mochizuki, Yuko Sasajima and Hiroshi Kondo

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:8

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  8. Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) is a rare pancreatic tumor that predominantly affects young females. Prognosis is excellent; however, 10–15% of patients show metastasis at the time of surgery or develop t...

    Authors: Kiyonori Tanoue, Yuko Mataki, Hiroshi Kurahara, Tetsuya Idichi, Yota Kawasaki, Yoichi Yamasaki, Yoshiaki Kita, Yuto Hozaka, Hideyuki Oi, Akihiro Nakajo, Takaaki Arigami, Kosei Maemura and Takao Ohtsuka

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:7

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  9. The novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has spread rapidly around the world and has caused many deaths. COVID-19 in...

    Authors: Masahiro Sukegawa, Satoshi Nishiwada, Taichi Terai, Hiroyuki Kuge, Fumikazu Koyama, Kenji Nakagawa, Minako Nagai and Masayuki Sho

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:6

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  10. The celiac artery stenosis due to compression by median arcuate ligament (MAL) has been reported in many cases of pancreaticoduodenectomy, but not in cases of esophagectomy. Recently, the celiac artery stenosi...

    Authors: Keita Hanada, Shigeru Tsunoda, Satoshi Ogiso, Tatsuto Nishigori, Shigeo Hisamori and Kazutaka Obama

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:5

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  11. Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can cause bleeding. The treatment choice for GI tract AVM is surgical resection of the involved bowel segment with complete resection of the ...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Kurata, Koichi Hayano, Keisuke Matsusaka, Hisashi Mamiya, Masaya Uesato, Kentaro Murakami, Masayuki Kano, Takeshi Toyozumi, Yasunori Matsumoto, Hiroshi Suito, Tetsuro Isozaki, Gaku Ohira, Hideki Hayashi and Hisahiro Matsubara

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:4

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  12. The administration of direct-acting antiviral agents in patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatitis C has been shown to improve liver function and long-term prognosis after sustained virological response (SVR)...

    Authors: Ryoga Hamura, Shinji Onda, Yoshihiro Shirai, Jungo Yasuda, Koichiro Haruki, Kenei Furukawa, Taro Sakamoto, Takeshi Gocho and Toru Ikegami

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:3

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  13. Perforation of the ileal J-pouch after restorative proctocolectomy and ileal pouch–anal anastomosis are extremely rare. There has been no report of perforation of the ileal J-pouch occurring twice over several...

    Authors: Kengo Shibata, Shota Ebinuma, Sodai Sakamoto, Asami Suzuki, Yasunobu Terasaki and Akinobu Taketomi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:2

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  14. Ischemic bowel injuries are generally caused by arteriosclerosis, thromboembolism, or vasculitis. Ischemic enteritis is less common than ischemic colitis because of the rich collateral arteries of the small in...

    Authors: Taiki Sunakawa, Nobuo Ito, Ryo Moriyasu, Nobuya Seki, Daisuke Takeuchi and Kotaro Sasahara

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:1

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  15. A persistent Müllerian duct syndrome is a rare disorder of sexual differentiation characterized by the presence of the female reproductive system in a normal male.

    Authors: Marah Mansour, Abdullah Fattal, Yassamine Ouerdane, Tamim Alsuliman and Omar Kanjawi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:271

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  16. Reflux esophagitis after total gastrectomy is often difficult to treat. In this report, we describe two cases of reflux esophagitis that were refractory to medical therapy and successfully treated by transposi...

    Authors: Noriyuki Nishiwaki, Shinji Hato, Tetsuya Kagawa, Tomokazu Kakishita and Isao Nozaki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:270

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  17. Intra-abdominal hemorrhage caused by blunt hepatic injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with abdominal trauma. Some of these patients require laparotomy, and rapid decision-making and...

    Authors: Jun Soma, Daisuke Ishii, Hisayuki Miyagi, Seiya Ishii, Keita Motoki, Hidemasa Kawabata, Shunta Ishitoya, Masahiro Hagiwara, Naohiro Kokita and Masatoshi Hirasawa

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:269

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  18. Metastatic melanoma originating from the choroidal membrane is extremely rare. Here, we report a case of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for malignant melanoma that developed after heavy-particle therapy fo...

    Authors: Shigeaki Baba, Yuji Akiyama, Fumitaka Endo, Haruka Nikai, Ryo Sugimoto, Akira Umemura, Hirokatsu Katagiri, Yasushi Hasegawa, Takeshi Iwaya, Hiroyuki Nitta, Keisuke Koeda, Tamotsu Sugai and Akira Sasaki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:268

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  19. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are emerging agents used for the treatment of various malignant tumors. As ICIs are generally used for unresectable malignant tumors, there have been only a few reports of p...

    Authors: Kimimasa Sasaki, Shin Kobayashi, Masashi Kudo, Motokazu Sugimoto, Shinichiro Takahashi, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Akihito Kawazoe, Kohei Shitara, Takahiro Kinoshita and Naoto Gotohda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:267

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  20. The incidence of gastric tube cancer is increasing because of improved survival rates in patients with esophageal cancer treated by esophagectomy. Total resection of the gastric tube is expected to be highly c...

    Authors: Kohei Tajima, Hideo Shimada, Takayuki Nishi, Yutaro Kamei, Kazuo Koyanagi and Hiroyasu Makuuchi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:266

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  21. Cardiovascular surgery for patients with a history of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) with thrombosis requires careful perioperative anticoagulation therapy. When cardiovascular surgery is required for ...

    Authors: Yuya Ito, Aya Saito, Yuki Shirai and Noboru Motomura

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:265

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  22. The most common presentation of symptomatic Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) are intestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and inflammation of the MD with or without perforation. Intraperitoneal hemorrhag...

    Authors: Kazuki Wakizaka, Lee Wee Khor, Kazuya Annen, Tsuyoshi Fukushima, Mitsuko Furuya and Akinobu Taketomi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:264

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  23. Cholangiolocellular carcinoma (CoCC) is a relatively rare primary liver tumor. We present a literature review and case report of a patient who presented with a slow-growing CoCC that was completely resected af...

    Authors: Kosuke Akiyama, Tomoyuki Abe, Akihiko Oshita, Akinori Shimizu, Keiji Hanada, Shuji Yonehara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Hideki Ohdan, Toshio Noriyuki and Masahiro Nakahara

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:263

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  24. Middle segment-preserving pancreatectomy (MSPP) is an alternative to total pancreatectomy that allows for the preservation of the endocrine and exocrine functions of the pancreas. However, maintaining perfusio...

    Authors: Tomohiro Iguchi, Norifumi Iseda, Kosuke Hirose, Mizuki Ninomiya, Takuya Honboh, Takashi Maeda, Fumi Sawada, Yu-ichi Tachibana, Tetsuro Akashi, Naotaka Sekiguchi, Noriaki Sadanaga and Hiroshi Matsuura

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:262

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  25. Colonic metastasis is uncommon in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the past, extrahepatic metastasis of HCC was not treated aggressively because of its poor prognosis. Herein, we describe the c...

    Authors: Wataru Miyauchi, Manabu Yamamoto, Makinoya Masahiro, Yuji Shishido, Kozo Miyatani, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Teruhisa Sakamoto and Yoshiyuki Fujiwara

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:261

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  26. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with metastases to the cervical lymph nodes are extremely rare, and its clinical course is characterized by rapidly progressive disease. Hence, there have been no report...

    Authors: Kiyonori Tanoue, Yota Kawasaki, Yoichi Yamasaki, Satoshi Iino, Masahiko Sakoda, Yuko Mataki, Tetsuya Idichi, Yoshiaki Kita, Yuto Hozaka, Akihiro Nakajo, Takaaki Arigami, Hiroshi Kurahara and Takao Ohtsuka

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:260

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  27. Rectourethral fistula is a rare disease with a wide variety of etiologies and clinical presentations. A definitive surgical procedure for rectourethral fistula repair has not been established.

    Authors: Toshinori Hirano, Hiroki Ohge, Yusuke Watadani, Shinnosuke Uegami, Norimitsu Shimada, Ikki Nakashima, Kosuke Yoshimura and Shinya Takahashi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:259

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  28. Adult cases of retroperitoneal isolated enteric duplication cyst (IEDC) are rare, with only 17 case reports in the relevant literature. We herein present a case, which was characterized by changes in intra-cys...

    Authors: Mayu Inomata, Kengo Kai, Takuto Ikeda, Akiko Ichihara, Rie Masuda, Takumi Kiwaki, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroaki Kataoka and Atsushi Nanashima

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:258

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  29. Ectopic opening of the common bile duct is a rare congenital biliary anomaly. Herein, we present a case of duodenal stenosis with ectopic opening of the common bile duct into the duodenal bulb.

    Authors: Kazuki Kobayashi, Michinori Murayama, Hidekazu Sugasawa, Makoto Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Nishiyama and Hiroaki Takeo

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:257

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  30. Intraoperative bleeding from the celiac axis (CA) can occur during pancreatic surgery, and appropriate management is essential to avoid critical complications. Here, we have reported a case that was managed wi...

    Authors: Yuki Takano, Shuichi Fujioka, Hironori Shozaki, Naoki Toya and Toru Ikegami

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:256

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  31. Carcinoma of the uterine cervix (cervical cancer) metastasising to the thyroid gland is a rare phenomenon and only a few cases have been reported. We discuss a patient with cervical cancer presenting with thyr...

    Authors: Sanjeevan Ravindrakumar, Nanduni Thalahitiyage, Nagenthiram Harivallavan, Umesh Jayarajah and Vitharanage Srimantha Dewsiri Rodrigo

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:255

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  32. The treatment for the locally advanced esophageal cancer invading adjacent organs is controversial. We performed a radical surgery for a patient suffering from lower esophageal cancer with pancreatic invasion,...

    Authors: Yoshiki Kaneko, Katsuji Hisakura, Koichi Ogawa, Yoshimasa Akashi, Yusuke Ohara, Yohei Owada, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Kinji Furuya, Shoko Moue, Manami Doi, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Osamu Shimomura, Shinji Hashimoto, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tsunehiko Maruyama and Tatsuya Oda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:254

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  33. The abscopal effect is a rare phenomenon in which local irradiation causes tumor regression outside the irradiated area. There have been no reports of abscopal effect in patients with gastrointestinal melanoma...

    Authors: Takahisa Yamaguchi, Sachio Fushida, Jun Kinoshita, Hiroto Saito, Mari Shimada, Shiro Terai, Hideki Moriyama, Koichi Okamoto, Keishi Nakamura, Itasu Ninomiya and Noriyuki Inaki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:253

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  34. Bladder hernias are rare conditions that are difficult to diagnose preoperatively; many cases are diagnosed intraoperatively or postoperatively due to bladder injury. Most bladder hernias are direct inguinal h...

    Authors: Ryoma Yokoi, Shigetoshi Yamada, Yuji Hatanaka and Hiroki Kato

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:252

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  35. For recurrent pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP), repeat cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with or without hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) can provide survival benefits if patients are carefully selected...

    Authors: Kenya Yamanaka, Norishige Iizuka and Toshiyuki Kitai

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:251

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  36. Two cases of laparoscopic remnant cholecystectomy using near-infrared fluorescence cholangiography (NIFC) for remnant gallbladder calculi following subtotal-cholecystectomy are reported. Case 1: a 36-year-old ...

    Authors: Takeshi Utsunomiya, Katsunori Sakamoto, Kyousei Sogabe, Ryoichi Takenaka, Tatsuya Hayashi, Fumiya Ogura, Hisato Yamamoto, Naoki Ishida, Taro Nakamura, Akimasa Sakamoto, Miku Iwata, Chihiro Ito, Takashi Matsui, Yusuke Nishi, Mikiya Shine, Mio Uraoka…

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:250

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  37. Composite hemangioendothelioma is an extraordinarily rare form of vascular neoplasm which develops predominantly in the skins and soft tissues of the adults. Neuroendocrine marker expression in composite heman...

    Authors: Ei Miyamoto, Kenji Seki, Hiroyuki Katsuragawa, Yuji Yoshimoto, Yuki Ohsumi, Takamasa Fukui, Masashi Gotoh and Tatsuo Nakagawa

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:249

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  38. Mycoplasma hominis is a human commensal bacterium of the urogenital tract, and extragenital infection caused by M. hominis has rarely been reported. The identification of M. hominis is challenging, and surgeons a...

    Authors: Hiroki Kitagawa, Haruna Shimizu, Keijiro Katayama, Kayoko Tadera, Toshihito Nomura, Kietaro Omori, Norifumi Shigemoto, Taiichi Takasaki, Hiroki Ohge and Shinya Takahashi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:248

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  39. Sternal splintage is known as an effective maneuver to stabilize hemodynamics during the immediate postoperative period, particularly in very sick infants. On the other hand, its wound management is not always...

    Authors: Shinya Yokoyama, Rei Tonomura, Ryohei Fukuba, Kazuhiro Mitani and Hideki Uemura

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:247

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  41. Having a broad differential and knowing how to manage the different possibilities in a patient with chest pain is important. Esophageal bezoars are rare entities and are even less common in patients without an...

    Authors: Kevin Climaco, Daniel Roubik and Robert Gorrell

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:245

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  42. Primary liposarcoma arising from the liver is exceedingly rare. There have been very few reports documenting primary hepatic liposarcoma, especially of the pleomorphic subtype. Surgery is currently the only es...

    Authors: Yuri Terunuma, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Manami Doi, Osamu Shimomura, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Kinji Furuya, Shoko Moue, Yohei Owada, Koichi Ogawa, Yusuke Ohara, Yoshimasa Akashi, Shinji Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Enomoto and Tatsuya Oda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:244

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  43. Early gastric cancer (EGC) is often associated with lymphatic metastasis, but it is extremely rare to be found as a single giant lymph node. Cancer often becomes more malignant in metastatic lesions than in pr...

    Authors: Masato Yoshikawa, Misaki Tamario, Masayoshi Obatake, Koichi Sato, Shigehiko Yagi, Hiromi Otani and Katsumi Kito

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:243

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  44. Soft coagulation is widely used for hemostasis because of its significant advantage in inducing tissue coagulation and denaturation without carbonization. However, a few cases of airway damage have been report...

    Authors: Sakiko Kumata, Katsunari Matsuoka, Shinjiro Nagai, Mitsuhiro Ueda, Yoshinori Okada and Yoshihiro Miyamoto

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:242

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  45. The number of elderly patients with gastric cancer is increasing, with the very elderly often refusing radical gastrectomy with lymph node dissection. Such a patient presented to us and we proposed a palliativ...

    Authors: Marie Washio, Naoki Hiki, Kei Hosoda, Masahiro Niihara, Motohiro Chuman, Mikiko Sakuraya, Takuya Wada, Hiroki Harada, Takeo Sato, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Takeshi Naitoh, Yusuke Kumamoto, Takafumi Sangai, Satoshi Tanabe and Keishi Yamashita

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:241

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  46. Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of stomach is extremely rare. The pathogenesis of SCC of stomach remains unclear. There is only one report that Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection may be involved in the p...

    Authors: Yuki Katsura, Takehiro Okabayashi, Kazuhiro Ozaki, Yuichi Shibuya and Jun Iwata

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:240

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  47. Pancreatic juice is constantly activated by contaminated bile in patients with pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM). Here, we report a case of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for a patient with PBM and sphi...

    Authors: Yoshifumi Morita, Tomohiro Akutsu, Mitsumasa Makino, Miku Obayashi, Shinya Ida, Ryuta Muraki, Ryo Kitajima, Amane Hirotsu, Makoto Takeda, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Hirmatsu, Yasushi Hamaya, Ken Sugimoto, Hiromi Kato, Matsuyuki Doi, Yukichi Tanahashi…

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:239

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  48. Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is a subtype of biliary tumor. The 5-year survival rate of patients with IPNB who underwent curative resection is 81%. However, IPNB is known to often rec...

    Authors: Yuki Nakayama, Takahiro Tomino, Mizuki Ninomiya, Ryosuke Minagawa, Yumi Oshiro, Takuma Izumi, Daisuke Taniguchi, Kosuke Hirose, Yuichiro Kajiwara, Kazuhito Minami and Takashi Nishizaki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:238

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  49. Massive hemoptysis is a life-threatening complication after transbronchial biopsy (TBB). Reports on massive hemoptysis occurring several days after TBB are scarce.

    Authors: Harushi Ueno, Hideki Tsubouchi, Keita Nakanishi, Tomoshi Sugiyama, Yuka Kadomatsu, Masaki Goto, Naoki Ozeki, Shota Nakamura, Takayuki Fukui and Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:237

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  50. Primary hepatic neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) are extremely rare. The rate of recurrence after resection is extremely high, and the prognosis is poor. It is debatable whether chemotherapy or surgical resect...

    Authors: Yusuke Seki, Hiroki Sakata, Toshimasa Uekusa, Hirokazu Momose, Satomi Yoneyama, Akio Hidemura, Yusuke Tajima, Hiroyuki Suzuki and Masahiro Ishimaru

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2021 7:236

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