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  1. Ring calcification in hepatocellular carcinoma is extremely rare. Untreated hepatocellular carcinoma occasionally includes calcified lesions. Here, we report a case of ring-calcified hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Authors: Yutaro Matsunaga, Shunichi Ariizumi, Go Shibuya, Shuichiro Uemura, Takaaki Kato, Takehisa Yazawa, Shingo Yamashita, Akiko Omori, Ryota Higuchi, Yutaka Takahashi, Yoshihito Kotera, Hiroto Egawa and Masakazu Yamamoto

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:171

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  2. Diaphragmatic hernia is a rare complication of ventricular assist device (VAD), mainly developing after explantation of the device. We herein report a case of diaphragmatic hernia that developed following the ...

    Authors: Ryuta Saka, Takaaki Sakai, Tomomitsu Kanaya, Yuko Tazuke, Yosuke Kugo, Masaki Taira, Takayoshi Ueno and Hiroomi Okuyama

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:170

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  3. Recently, robotic surgery has become more common as a minimally invasive treatment for gastric cancer (GC) and rectal cancer (RC). Herein, we report successful simultaneous robotic gastrectomy and low anterior...

    Authors: Sachiko Kaida, Toru Miyake, Tomoharu Shimizu, Katsushi Takebayashi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Ken Ishikawa and Masaji Tani

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:169

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  4. Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma (PHL) is an extremely rare type of tumor. We herein report a case of a large surgically resected leiomyosarcoma of the liver.

    Authors: Takashi Maeda, Kyohei Yugawa, Nao Kinjo, Daisuke Imai, Kensaku Sanefuji, Koto Kawata, Shinichiro Ikeda, Keitaro Edahiro, Kazuki Takeishi, Tomohiro Iguchi, Noboru Harada, Mizuki Ninomiya, Shohei Yamaguchi, Kozo Konishi, Shinichi Tsutsui and Hiroyuki Matsuda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:168

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  5. Postoperative non-anastomotic stenosis of the proximal jejunum after total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction is a rare complication. If endoscopic balloon dilation proves ineffective, patients need re-...

    Authors: Teppei Kamada, Hironori Ohdaira, Hideyuki Takeuchi, Junji Takahashi, Rui Marukuchi, Norihiko Suzuki, Satoshi Narihiro, Sojun Hoshimoto, Masashi Yoshida, Eigoro Yamanouchi and Yutaka Suzuki

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:167

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  6. Rectovaginal fistula (RVF) following aluminum potassium sulfate hydrate-tannic acid (ALTA) injection therapy for hemorrhoids is a rare complication. We report the first case of RVF after ALTA injection therapy...

    Authors: Masanori Yoshimitsu, Hiroyuki Egi, Shogo Nagamatsu, Manabu Shimomura, Keishi Hakoda, Masashi Miguchi, Toshihiko Kohashi, Masazumi Okajima and Hideki Ohdan

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:166

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  7. Right atrial myxoma is a rare anomaly. When present, it can rarely cause blood flow obstruction in the right cardiac chamber depending on its size and location. We herein report a rare case of a giant right at...

    Authors: Ryosuke Numaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto, Ryuji Koshima and Keijiro Mitsube

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:165

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  8. To treat small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), many procedures were described for portal flow modulation before, during, or after transplantation. The selection of the...

    Authors: Mohamed Elshawy, Takeo Toshima, Yoshiki Asayama, Yuichiro Kubo, Shinichiro Ikeda, Toru Ikegami, Shingo Arakaki, Tomoharu Yoshizumi and Masaki Mori

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:164

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  9. Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) is a mesenchymal tumor, and computed tomography typically shows SFTPs as well-defined lobulated masses. We herein report a case of SFTP with cystic degeneration of t...

    Authors: Takuya Watanabe, Masayuki Tanahashi, Eriko Suzuki, Naoko Yoshii, Kensuke Chiba, Hiroyuki Tsuchida, Shogo Yobita, Suiha Uchiyama, Kensuke Iguchi, Hiroshi Ogawa and Hiroshi Niwa

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:163

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  11. Perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum with enteroliths is a rare complication. Here, we report a case of perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum with one enterolith, which could not be accurately diagnosed by preo...

    Authors: Tomonari Shimagaki, Kozo Konishi, Koto Kawata, Keitaro Edahiro, Makoto Edagawa, Tomoyoshi Takenaka, Takahiro Ohmine, Nao Kinjo, Shohei Yamaguchi, Takashi Maeda, Shinichi Tsutsui and Hiroyuki Matsuda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:161

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  12. Mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma (MANEC) of the common bile duct (CBD) is very rare, with only 10 reported cases. Here, we report a case of MANEC of the distal bile duct (DBD) that was surgically resected u...

    Authors: Takashi Maeda, Kyohei Yugawa, Nao Kinjo, Hiroto Kayashima, Daisuke Imai, Koto Kawata, Shinichiro Ikeda, Keitaro Edahiro, Kazuki Takeishi, Tomohiro Iguchi, Noboru Harada, Mizuki Ninomiya, Shohei Yamaguchi, Kozo Konishi, Shinichi Tsutsui and Hiroyuki Matsuda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:160

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  13. There have been no reports on the effectiveness of the administration of antithrombin III (AT III) for post-transplant portal vein thrombosis (PVT). We herein report a case of post-transplant PVT that was reso...

    Authors: Yuta Hirata, Yukihiro Sanada, Takahiko Omameuda, Takumi Katano, Go Miyahara, Naoya Yamada, Noriki Okada, Yasuharu Onishi, Yasunaru Sakuma and Naohiro Sata

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:159

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  14. Liposarcoma arising from the mediastinum is rare, accounting for less than 1% of mediastinal tumors. Furthermore, a rapidly growing well-differentiated liposarcoma is extremely rare. A well-differentiated lipo...

    Authors: Naoya Iwamoto, Yosuke Matsuura, Hironori Ninomiya, Junji Ichinose, Masayuki Nakao, Yuichi Ishikawa, Sakae Okumura and Mingyon Mun

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:158

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  15. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most aggressive malignancies. The prognosis for recurrence after surgery is extremely unfavorable, and liver metastasis of PDAC confers poor prognosis despi...

    Authors: Chikanori Tsutsumi, Toshiya Abe, Tomohiko Shinkawa, Kazuyoshi Nishihara, Sadafumi Tamiya and Toru Nakano

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:157

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  17. Pyogenic spondylodiscitis is an extremely rare complication of esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.

    Authors: Yuichi Akama, Takeshi Matsutani, Nobutoshi Hagiwara, Hiroki Umezawa, Tsutomu Nomura, Hidetsugu Hanawa, Keisuke Mishima, Nobuhiko Taniai and Hiroshi Yoshida

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:155

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  18. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are typically solid neoplasms but, in very rare cases, present as cystic lesions. We describe a case of a cystic neuroendocrine tumor that developed as a small cystic l...

    Authors: Keisuke Noda, Tamotsu Kuroki, Mampei Yamashita, Takanori Hirayama, Koji Natsuda, Shinichiro Kobayashi, Takayuki Tokunaga, Kosho Yamanouchi, Hiroaki Takeshita, Shiro Miura and Shigeto Maeda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:154

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  19. Congenital absence of portal vein (CAPV) is a rare structural anomaly in which the portal vein (PV) blood that normally flow into the liver directly drains into the systemic venous system through other collate...

    Authors: Peilin Li, Masaaki Hidaka, Takashi Hamada, Satoshi Ikeda, Shinichiro Ono, Yasuhiro Maruya, Tota Kugiyama, Takanobu Hara, Tomoko Yoshimoto, Tomohiko Adachi, Takayuki Tanaka, Takayuki Miyoshi, Shunsuke Murakami, Yu Huang, Kengo Kanetaka and Susumu Eguchi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:153

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  20. Well-differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma (WDFA) of the lung is a rare disease that resembles fetal lung tubules. Most of previous reports concerning WDFA have focused on histological features, while there are ...

    Authors: Shuhei Hakiri, Takayuki Fukui, Hideki Tsubouchi, Ayako Sakakibara, Shingo Iwano and Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:152

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  21. An esophageal diverticulum is rare and is frequently associated with esophageal motility disorders. Jackhammer esophagus is also rare, is characterized by esophageal hypercontraction, and comprises 4.1% of eso...

    Authors: Atsuro Fujinaga, Tomotaka Shibata, Tsuyoshi Etoh, Kazuhiro Tada, Kosuke Suzuki, Kohei Nishiki, Katsuhiro Ogawa, Yohei Kono, Takahiro Hiratsuka, Tomonori Akagi, Yoshitake Ueda, Manabu Toujigamori, Hidefumi Shiroshita, Norio Shiraishi and Masafumi Inomata

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:151

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  22. Gastroenteric neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) account for 6.2% of gastroenteric neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), and only 1% or less of gastroenteric NETs occur in the ampulla of Vater (AoV). Clinical features o...

    Authors: Hiroharu Ito, Yoshiyuki Wada, Yuko Takami, Tomoki Ryu, Hiroki Ureshino, Hajime Imamura, Shin Sasaki, Akihisa Ohno, Masayuki Hijioka, Toyoma Kaku, Ken Kawabe, Shigeto Kawauchi and Hideki Saitsu

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:150

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  23. Advancements in chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) have improved long-term outcomes, and median survival currently exceeds 30 months. The recommended treatment for mCRC is multidisciplinary, ...

    Authors: Kozue Matsuishi, Yuji Miyamoto, Yukiharu Hiyoshi, Ryuma Tokunaga, Katsunori Imai, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Yoichi Yamashita, Naoya Yoshida and Hideo Baba

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:149

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  24. Splenic vein stenosis and occlusion, which are known causes of left-sided portal hypertension, often occur secondary to trauma, pancreatitis, or invasion or compression by pancreatic tumors. However, few repor...

    Authors: Hikaru Hayashi, Akira Shimizu, Hiroaki Motoyama, Koji Kubota, Tsuyoshi Notake, Tomohiko Ikehara, Koya Yasukawa, Akira Kobayashi and Yuji Soejima

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:148

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  25. Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) of T cell type has been rarely reported. Accurate diagnosis of this life-threatening rare form of PTLD is important for the treatment strategy.

    Authors: Ryoichi Goto, Norio Kawamura, Masaaki Watanabe, Yasuyuki Koshizuka, Souichi Shiratori, Momoko Ara, Shohei Honda, Tomoko Mitsuhashi, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Tsuyoshi Shimamura and Akinobu Taketomi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:147

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  26. The recurrence of symptoms present before cholecystectomy may be caused by a cystic duct remnant. The resolution of cystic duct remnant syndrome may require surgical resection, but identification of the duct r...

    Authors: Shinichi Matsudaira, Tsuyoshi Fukumoto, Akinaga Yarita, Joji Hamada, Masayuki Hisada, Junichi Fukushima and Nobuaki Kawarabayashi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:146

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  27. Parathyroid carcinoma as a cause of primary hyperparathyroidism in children is extremely rare. We report a case of parathyroid carcinoma which occurred in a 13-year-old girl who survived for more than 45 years...

    Authors: Yoko Omi, Tomoko Yamamoto, Yoji Nagashima, Koichiro Abe, Kumiko Karasawa, Yukichi Tanaka and Takahiro Okamoto

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:145

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  28. Pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic proliferation is a rare proliferative lesion of the submucosal stroma characterized by myofibroblast proliferation and inflammatory cell infiltration, and is mainly reported i...

    Authors: Tetsuya Tanaka, Takeshi Ueda, Takashi Yokoyama, Suzuka Harada, Kinta Hatakeyama and Atsushi Yoshimura

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:144

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  29. Solid papillary carcinoma (SPC) of the breast is a rare breast cancer that accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancers. The optimal clinical management of SPC remains controversial. Here, we report a case ...

    Authors: Xue Lin, Yoshiaki Matsumoto, Tomomi Nakakimura, Kazuo Ono, Shigeaki Umeoka, Masae Torii, Hiroshi Yoshibayashi and Masakazu Toi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:143

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  30. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) generally has a good prognosis, while liver metastasis from PTC is rare and difficult to diagnose.

    Authors: Mariko Tsukagoshi, Norifumi Harimoto, Kenichiro Araki, Norio Kubo, Akira Watanabe, Takamichi Igarashi, Norihiro Ishii, Toshiki Yajima, Takaaki Sano and Ken Shirabe

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:142

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  31. Heterotopic pancreas (HP) is defined as pancreatic tissue in organs with no anatomical continuity with the orthotopic pancreas. Based on the number of cases reported in the literature between the year 2000 and...

    Authors: Teruya Minami, Takuro Terada, Takeshi Mitsui and Yasuni Nakanuma

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:141

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  32. Lymphangioma is a benign malformation of the lymphatic system and is often found in the neck and axilla, the orbit, the mediastinum, etc. However, isolated splenic lymphangioma is a rare disease in young women...

    Authors: Kotaro Kimura, Yo Kurashima, Kimitaka Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Nakanishi, Toshimichi Asano, Yuma Ebihara, Takehiro Noji, Soichi Murakami, Toru Nakamura, Takahiro Tsuchikawa, Keisuke Okamura, Toshiaki Shichinohe, Hiromi Kanno-Okada and Satoshi Hirano

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:140

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  33. We present a case of pancreatic and splenic metastases following alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), which was successfully treated by surgery.

    Authors: Satoshi Arakawa, Yukio Asano, Norihiko Kawabe, Hidetoshi Nagata, Yuka Kondo, Shinpei Furuta, Masahiro Shimura, Chihiro Hayashi, Takayuki Ochi, Kenshiro Kamio, Toki Kawai, Hironobu Yasuoka, Takahiko Higashiguchi, Shin Ishihara, Masahiro Ito, Yoshihiro Imaeda…

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:139

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  34. Locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is unsuitable for standard locoregional therapies, remains a challenge to manage. Among the recently developed treatments, proton beam therapy (PBT) has b...

    Authors: Eiji Higaki, Masahide Fukaya, Kazushi Miyata, Ryosuke Kawai and Tetsuya Abe

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:138

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  35. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an abnormal accumulation of Langerhans cells in various organs that sometimes induces organ dysfunction. LCH can affect the liver, resulting in sclerosing cholangitis and...

    Authors: Masakazu Murakami, Shun Onishi, Yuki Ohya, Seiichi Kawabata, Kaori Isono, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Tsuguharu Asato, Yumi Honda, Yoshiki Mikami, Yukihiro Inomata, Taizo Hibi and Satoshi Ieiri

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:137

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  36. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is a rare malignancy that originated from the smooth muscle tissue of the vascular wall. Diagnoses, as well as, treatment of the disease are still challengi...

    Authors: Samra Gafarli, Dorian Igna, Mathias Wagner, Adriana Nistor, Matthias Glanemann and Barbara Stange

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:136

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  38. There is no standard surgical method for treating pancreatic head tumors with fat replacement of the pancreatic body and tail. Total pancreatectomy procedures are usually performed to excise pancreatic head tu...

    Authors: Toru Sakurai, Yuichi Nagakawa, Chie Takishita, Hiroaki Osakabe, Hitoe Nishino, Masanori Akashi, Naoto Okazaki, Kenta Suzuki, Kenji Katsumata and Akihiko Tsuchida

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:134

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  39. Epidermoid cyst within an intrapancreatic accessory spleen (ECIAS) is a rare disease. While the detection of solid components relevant to an accessory spleen is a key diagnostic finding, the differential diagn...

    Authors: Chisato Takagi, Nobuo Hoshi, Yutaro Kikuchi, Hirofumi Shirakawa, Moriaki Tomikawa, Iwao Ozawa, Shoichi Hishinuma and Yoshiro Ogata

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:133

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  40. Nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) has been reported to be a life-threating disease. Gastric conduit necrosis is known as a critical postoperative complication after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer. W...

    Authors: Kotaro Miura, Naoshi Kubo, Katsunobu Sakurai, Yutaka Tamamori, Akihiro Murata, Takafumi Nishii, Shintaro Kodai, Akiko Tachimori, Sadatoshi Shimizu, Akishige Kanazawa, Toru Inoue, Yukio Nishiguchi and Kiyoshi Maeda

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:132

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  41. Anti-Gerbich (Ge) alloantibody against high-frequency erythrocyte antigen is extremely rare. Owing to incomplete evidence regarding the degree and severity of adverse events induced by hemolytic transfusion re...

    Authors: Teruo Komokata, Maki Inoue, Bibek Aryal, Hiroto Yasumura, Chinami Mori, Mituharu Nomoto, Mamoru Kaieda and Shuichi Hanada

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:131

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  42. The 2019 revised World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of endocrine organs classifies grade 3 gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NEN G3) into well-differentiated tumors (NE...

    Authors: Misato Ito, Yasumitsu Hirano, Toshimasa Isii, Hiroka Kondo, Liming Wang, Masahiro Asari, Nao Obara and Shigeki Yamaguchi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:130

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  43. Perforation of a duodenal diverticulum is a rare complication that may become fatal with a delay in appropriate treatment. However, the optimal treatment for perforated duodenal diverticulum remains controvers...

    Authors: Ayako Shimada, Koji Fujita, Minoru Kitago, Shunsuke Ichisaka, Keiichi Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Kikunaga, Koichiro Kumai and Hiroshi Miura

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:129

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  44. Aspergillus endocarditis (AE) is a rare and lethal cardiac infection with a high rate of mortality. AE most commonly presents in immunocompromised patients and is associated with various co-morbidities. Herein, w...

    Authors: Yuya Hiroshima, Soki Kurumisawa, Kei Aizawa, Noriyoshi Fukushima and Koji Kawahito

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:128

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  45. Colostomy via the intraperitoneal route is often performed during laparoscopic Hartmann’s operation or abdominoperineal resection. Internal hernia of the small intestine often occurs after colostomy. This repo...

    Authors: Hiroki Hashida, Ryosuke Kita, Masato Kondo, Ryosuke Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Satoshi Kaihara

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:127

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  46. Pancreatoduodenectomy with resection of the portal vein or superior mesenteric vein confluence has been safely performed in patients with pancreatic head cancer associated with infiltration of the portal vein ...

    Authors: Shota Kuwabara, Joe Matsumoto, Hiroyasu Tojima, Hideyuki Wada, Kohei Kato, Yukiko Tabata, Masaomi Ichinokawa, Tatsuya Yoshioka, Katsuhiko Murakawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Setsuyuki Ohtake and Koichi Ono

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:126

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  47. Granulosa cell tumor (GCT) is a type of ovarian sex cord-stromal tumor with low-grade malignancy, which can recur long after primary resection. All reports on GCTs in the liver describe cases of metastases, wh...

    Authors: Itsuki Koganezawa, Koichi Tomita, Masashi Nakagawa, Yosuke Ozawa, Toshimichi Kobayashi, Toru Sano, Rina Tsutsui, Naokazu Chiba, Akira Okimura, Munehide Nakatsugawa, Hiroshi Hirano and Shigeyuki Kawachi

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:125

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  48. We encountered a case of marginal ulcer in the jejunum after distal gastrectomy with jejunal pouch interposition. However, it has not been reported and not confirmed the treatment. We chose truncal vagotomy, c...

    Authors: Reika Yamashita, Naoto Takahashi, Kazuto Tsuboi, Norio Mitsumori, Hideyuki Kashiwagi and Katsuhiko Yanaga

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:123

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  49. Ulcerative colitis (UC) developing during chemotherapy is very rare. Here, we describe a case of acute onset during chemoradiotherapy for lung adenocarcinoma, requiring a total proctocolectomy.

    Authors: Koichi Mohri, Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, Yoshihisa Shibata, Taro Aoba, Masahiro Fujii, Atsuki Arimoto, Akira Ito and Takehito Kato

    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:121

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