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  1. Primary pancreatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare type of pancreatic cancer, with an incidence of 5% of all pancreatic cancers. This condition is associated with a poor prognosis, and no optimal treat...

    Authors: Colin Chan-Min Choi, Yasser Arafat, Maryam Shamassi and Julian Choi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:77
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  2. Schwannoma, which clinicians sometimes struggle to diagnose, is a tumor arising from Schwann cells of peripheral nerves, often in the soft tissues and rarely in the gastrointestinal tract. Pancreatic neuroendo...

    Authors: Kazunobu Suzuki, Takuya Shiraishi, Ikuma Shioi, Naoya Ozawa, Takuhisa Okada, Katsuya Osone, Takaaki Sano, Kenichiro Araki, Hiroomi Ogawa, Akihiko Sano, Makoto Sakai, Makoto Sohda, Ken Shirabe and Hiroshi Saeki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:76
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  3. Acquired hemophilia A (AHA) is a rare disease characterized by a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and the production of coagulation factor VIII inhibitors. We encountered two cases of AHA...

    Authors: Hidemasa Kubo, Ryo Ashida, Katsuhisa Ohgi, Masafumi Fukaya, Naoki Umezaki, Mihoko Yamada, Shimpei Otsuka, Katsuhiko Uesaka and Teiichi Sugiura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:75
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  4. Hydrosalpinx and pyosalpinx are rare gynecologic problems during adolescence, especially in girls without a history of sexual activity. They are even rarer in women with Hirschsprung’s disease (HD). We herein ...

    Authors: Yu Sugai, Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Takahashi, Yuhki Arai, Toshiyuki Ohyama, Naoki Yokota, Shoichi Takano and Akiko Kobayashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:74
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  5. Dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS) is a rare tumor and generally shows poor prognosis with the lung frequent metastatic site. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/...

    Authors: Yoshito Imamura, Satona Tanaka, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Ryo Sakamoto and Hiroshi Date
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:73
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  6. Laryngotracheoesophageal cleft (LTEC) is a rare disease in which the larynx and trachea communicate posteriorly to the esophagus. It is often associated with other congenital malformations, particularly gastro...

    Authors: Erika Nakatani, Keita Terui, Mitsuyuki Nakata, Shugo Komatsu, Ryohei Shibata, Satoru Oita, Yunosuke Kawaguchi, Ayako Takenouchi, Sakurako Harada-Kagitani, Takashi Kishimoto, Koji Fukumoto and Tomoro Hishiki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:72
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  7. Alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer (AFPGC) is a rare type of aggressive gastric cancer (GC) with a dismal prognosis. We present a patient with AFPGC who achieved long-term survival through a multidisci...

    Authors: Takayo Ota, Katsuya Sakashita, Ryugo Sawada, Kurumi Seki, Hiroyuki Maeda, Noriko Tanaka and Toshimasa Tsujinaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:71
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  8. In previously reported cases of lesser omental hernia, a rare clinical presentation, the herniated intestinal tract was passing through both peritoneal layers of the lesser omentum to herniate into the periton...

    Authors: Hirotaka Shibuya, Keita Sato, Yosuke Yamauchi, Yoshihisa Tamura, Koji Takahashi and Yasushi Asari
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:70
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  9. CA19-9 is strongly expressed in malignant tumors of the digestive system and is widely used as a marker for gastrointestinal cancer. In this report, we describe a case of acute cholecystitis in which CA19-9 wa...

    Authors: Shinichiro Oinuma, Deguchi Yoshio, Syunsuke Omotaka, Takuya Terunuma, Shinya Kasagi, Hironobu Kimura, Noboru Yokoyama and Haruhiro Inoue
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:69
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  10. Thymoma is associated with autoimmune diseases. Myasthenia gravis is frequently associated with thymoma, but cases of thymoma complicated by alopecia areata are very rare. In this report, we present a case of ...

    Authors: Yukino Saito, Tomohiro Yazawa, Toshiteru Nagashima, Yoichi Ohtaki, Natsuko Kawatani, Eiji Narusawa, Ryohei Yoshikawa, Nozomi Matsumura, Tatsuro Maehara and Ken Shirabe
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:68
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  11. Microhepatocellular carcinoma with a gross bile duct tumor thrombus is extremely rare, making the correct preoperative diagnosis difficult.

    Authors: Takatsugu Matsumoto, Takayuki Shimizu, Shun Sato, Genki Tanaka, Takamune Yamaguchi, Kyung-Hwa Park, Yuhki Sakuraoka, Takayuki Shiraki, Shozo Mori, Yukihiro Iso, Takehiko Nemoto, Keiichi Kubota, Yumi Nozawa, Kazuyuki Ishida and Taku Aoki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:67
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  12. Localized colorectal amyloidosis has a good prognosis, but cases involving bleeding or perforation may require surgery. However, there are few case reports discussing the differences in the surgical strategy b...

    Authors: Shunya Tahara, Mohei Kohyama, Atsushi Nakamitsu, Yoichi Sugiyama, Tatsuya Tazaki, Hiroyuki Taogoshi, Toshiaki Komo, Takuro Yamaguchi, Mitsuharu Ueda, Akira Ishikawa, Shinya Takahashi and Masaru Sasaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:66
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  13. In utero intestinal volvulus with intestinal atresia is a rare and life-threatening condition that can cause torsion of the dilated bowel. The management and outcomes of this disease remain unclear.

    Authors: Chiyoshi Toyama, Yuki Segawa, Shigeo Iijima, Takeshi Murakoshi and Keigo Nara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:65
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  14. Spontaneous regression (SR) of cancer occurs in 1 in 60,000–100,000 patients. This phenomenon has been reported in almost all cancer types, most commonly neuroblastoma, renal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma...

    Authors: Shinnosuke Harata, Hiroki Takahashi, Nanako Ando, Akira Kato, Kaori Watanabe, Takeshi Yanagita, Takuya Suzuki, Hajime Ushigome, Kazuyoshi Shiga, Ryo Ogawa, Yoichi Matsuo, Akira Mitsui, Masahiro Kimura and Shuji Takiguchi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:64
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  15. Among congenital anomalies of the portal venous system, prepancreatic postduodenal portal vein (PPPV) is very rare and has only been reported to date. Herein, we report a case of PPPV identified in preoperativ...

    Authors: Masanori Akashi, Daiki Miyazaki, Kazuaki Hashimoto, Shogo Fukutomi, Shoichiro Arai, Yuichi Goto, Toshihiro Sato, Hisamune Sakai and Toru Hisaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:63
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  17. Rectovaginal fistula (RVF) is a troublesome and refractory complication after low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer. An omental flap repair was performed for the RVF caused due to Crohn’s disease and ...

    Authors: Yuta Kuhara, Hiroshi Hotei, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Shingo Seo, Ai Amioka, Naoki Murao, Aki Kuwada, Akira Nakashima, Ryutaro Sakabe and Kou Tahara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:61
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  18. Left ventricle aneurysm (LVA) as a sequela to myocardial infarction or iatrogenic injury is required surgical treatment with full median sternotomy. Herein, we report a case of successful surgical treatment of...

    Authors: Yuta Kanazawa, Shunsuke Saito, Ikuko Shibasaki, Taiki Matsuoka, Shotaro Hirota, Shouhei Yokoyama, Yasuyuki Kanno, Masahiro Tezuka, Go Tsuchiya, Taisuke Konishi, Koji Ogata and Hirotsugu Fukuda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:60
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  19. Giant mediastinal mature teratomas may cause airway obstruction or decreased venous return due to the mass effect. Preoperative stabilization of the respiratory and circulatory systems is important for periope...

    Authors: Kengo Tani, Daisuke Kimura, Tsubasa Matsuo, Yoshiaki Saito, Kageaki Taima, Shinya Kakehata, Akira Kurose and Masahito Minakawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:59
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  21. In living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), portal Y-graft interposition using the recipient’s portal vein (PV) bifurcation has been used for right lobe grafts with double PV orifices. We herein report the u...

    Authors: Munetoshi Akaoka, Koichiro Haruki, Kenei Furukawa, Shinji Onda, Shunta Ishizaki, Masashi Tsunematsu, Yoshihiro Shirai, Norimitsu Okui, Yoshiaki Tanji and Toru Ikegami
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:57
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  22. Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumor (NET) is uncommon, but intestinal intussusception caused by NET is even rare. We report a rare case of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) for intestinal intussusc...

    Authors: Toshinori Sueda, Mitsuyoshi Tei, Soichiro Mori, Kentaro Nishida, Akinobu Yasuyama, Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Masatoshi Nomura, Chikato Koga, Hiromichi Miyagaki, Masanori Tsujie and Yusuke Akamaru
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:56
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  23. Pleuroperitoneal communication (PPC) is a rare complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and often forces patients to switch to hemodialysis. Some efficiencies of video-assisted thoracic...

    Authors: Teppei Hashimoto, Toshihiro Osaki, Soichi Oka and Takahisa Fujikawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:55
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  24. Exon 18 D842V, which is a point mutation from aspartic acid to valine at codon 842, is the most frequent mutation in Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor alpha (PDGFRA)-mutated gastrointestinal stromal tumor (...

    Authors: Ryugo Teranishi, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yukinori Kurokawa, Takuro Saito, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Kotaro Yamashita, Koji Tanaka, Tomoki Makino, Kiyokazu Nakajima, Hidetoshi Eguchi and Yuichiro Doki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:54
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  25. Retiform hemangioendothelioma (RH) is a rare, intermediate-grade vascular tumor that often arises in the trunk and extremities. The clinical and radiological features of RH remain largely unknown.

    Authors: Kaoru Ogura, Yoko Shibasaki, Satoshi Honda, Hidetaka Akita, Nobuhiko Aoki, Ja-Mun Chong and Toru Motoi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:53
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  26. Leiomyosarcoma is classified as a soft tissue sarcoma. In adults, leiomyosarcoma is the most common malignancy affecting the vascular system; however, vascular leiomyosarcoma in children is extremely rare as m...

    Authors: Kazuki Yoshizawa, Yasunari Ohno, Takashi Kurata, Yuki Takagi, Tomoko Kasai, Momoko Takizawa and Yuji Soejima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:52
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  27. Chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy are common treatments for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with distant metastasis; however, the prognosis remains poor, and complete remission is difficult to achieve. Her...

    Authors: Tetsuro Kawazoe, Shuhei Ito, Kippei Ohgaki, Yoshihiko Fujinaka, Hiroki Funakoshi, Akihiko Otake, Huanlin Wang, Kazutoyo Morita, Fumiyoshi Fushimi and Yoichi Ikeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:51
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  28. Radiation-induced sarcoma (RIS) has a 10-year incidence of 0.2–0.27% and a poor prognosis, although the radiation should need for breast-conserving surgery. In particular, radiation-induced fibrosarcoma has be...

    Authors: Hideko Hoshina, Kouichi Kubouchi, Yutaka Tsutsumi and Hiroyuki Takei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:50
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  29. Trichobezoars are a rare medical condition, often requiring a surgical approach and commonly associated with an underlying psychiatric disorder. The Rapunzel syndrome is a rare variant of trichobezoar in the s...

    Authors: Luca Schuler, Martina Hodel and Claudia Stieger
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:49
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  30. A neurofibroma is a benign tumor that arises from Schwann cells and neurofibromas occur throughout the skin of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1: Von Recklinghausen’s disease) patients. A retroperitoneal solitary...

    Authors: Takahiro Haruna, Hideyuki Takata, Satoshi Mizutani, Akira Katsuno, Ryosuke Nakata, Norio Motoda, Nobuhiko Taniai and Hiroshi Yoshida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:48
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  31. Perforated gastric ulcers are life-threatening surgical emergencies that need early diagnosis and treatment to overcome severe complications. With the rise of obesity in recent years, intragastric balloons hav...

    Authors: Gabriel A. Molina, Christian Rojas, William Aguayo, Cecilia Vivar and Jose D. Guzmán
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:47
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  32. Patients on long-term dialysis are prone to hemorrhagic complications, particularly uremic bleeding, but gallbladder hemorrhage is rare, even in patients on dialysis. There have been occasional reports of a Di...

    Authors: Yuu-ichi Yano, Tomohiro Iguchi, Shota Sato, Norifumi Iseda, Shun Sasaki, Yasuhiro Abe, Tomohiro Nakayama, Takuya Honboh, Seiya Kato, Noriaki Sadanaga and Hiroshi Matsuura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:46
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  33. Inferior vena cava thrombosis is a severe disease as it carries a higher risk of developing pulmonary embolism associated with a high mortality rate. The incidence of inferior vena cava thrombosis is extremely...

    Authors: Shota Maezawa, Ryota Seo, Naotaka Motoyoshi and Takashi Irinoda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:45
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  34. With the improvement of optimal perioperative drug therapy for breast cancer patients, physicians now have to treat the adverse effects and comorbidities associated with long-term treatments. We report a case ...

    Authors: Yumiko Ushiyama, Yoshiya Horimoto, Toshitaka Uomori, Yumiko Ishizuka, Misato Okazaki, Hiroko Onagi, Takuo Hayashi, Junichiro Watanabe and Mitsue Saito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:44
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  36. With the improved survival rate of patients with esophageal cancer, secondary cancers, including pharyngolaryngeal cancer, have become a problem. Phanryngolaryngeal cancer surgery often requires esophagogastri...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Oshikiri, Hiroshi Okamoto, Yusuke Taniyama, Ryo Ishii, Akira Ohkoshi, Koreyuki Kurosawa, Michiaki Unno and Takashi Kamei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:42
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  38. Esophageal hiatal hernia (EHH) presenting after gastrectomy for carcinoma is a type of internal hernia and very rare. There have been no published reports on the use of hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS...

    Authors: Shingo Itamoto, Nobuaki Fujikuni, Kazuaki Tanabe, Senichiro Yanagawa, Masahiro Nakahara and Toshio Noriyuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:40
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  39. Although distant metastasis in gastric cancer can be present at the time of the initial diagnosis, colonic metastasis is extremely rare. This report describes a case of simultaneous colonic metastasis of advan...

    Authors: Takafumi Shima, Asami Arita, Satoshi Sugimoto, Shoichi Takayama, Nao Kawaguchi, Yoshiro Imai, Tomohiro Kitahara, Tamaki Maeda and Junji Okuda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:39
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  40. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is the most aggressive form of thyroid carcinoma. Lenvatinib, a multikinase inhibitor, is rarely used in preoperative settings due to adverse effects including delayed wound ...

    Authors: Haruhiko Yamazaki, Katsuhiko Masudo, Sachie Kanada, Yoshiaki Inayama, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Yu Fujii and Yasushi Rino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:38
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  41. Gastrointestinal symptoms are one of the most common presentations of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), even in children. Higher rates of complicated appendicitis have been demonstrated in the era of the COVI...

    Authors: Jun Kono, Koichiro Yoshimaru, Toshiharu Matsuura, Akihiko Tamaki, Junkichi Takemoto, Shinya Matsumoto, Taeko Hotta, Kenichi Kohashi, Yoshinao Oda and Tatsuro Tajiri
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:37
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  42. Metastatic lung tumors rarely present with cystic formations. This is the first report of multiple cystic formations in pulmonary metastases from mucinous borderline ovarian tumors written in English.

    Authors: Rintaro Hamada, Yo Tsukamoto, Makoto Odaka, Mitsuo Yabe, Rintaro Shigemori, Tadashi Akiba, Naoki Toya and Takashi Ohtsuka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:36
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  43. There are many reports of port site recurrence after laparoscopic surgery for various types of cancer. However, only two cases of port site recurrence after laparoscopic pancreatectomy have been reported to da...

    Authors: Takashi Aida, Ryota Iwase, Teruyuki Usuba, Yu Kumagai, Kenei Furukawa, Shinji Onda, Masaichi Ogawa and Toru Ikegami
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:35
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  44. Laparoscopic surgery has reduced surgical morbidity and postoperative duration of hospital stay. Gas embolism is commonly known as a risk factor for all laparoscopic procedures. We report a case of severe cere...

    Authors: Kenji Shimizu, Masahiro Usuda, Yuta Kakizaki, Tomohiro Narita, On Suzuki and Kengo Fukuoka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:34
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  45. Histiocytic sarcoma (HS) is a rare hematologic malignancy. HS of the breast is extremely rare, and we present a case of an elderly patient with breast HS.

    Authors: Toru Higuchi, Chih-Ping Li, Yuko Hirota, Yuji Hayashi, Fumio Arisawa, Ikuko Manabe, Takashi Sakurai, Akiko Adachi and Tsuyoshi Saito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:33
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  46. In patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis with concomitant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, the treatment strategy should consider the presence of pneumonia, respi...

    Authors: Hirokatsu Hayashi, Jesse Yu Tajima, Ryoma Yokoi, Yuta Sato, Shigeru Kiyama, Takao Takahashi, Naoki Okumura, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Takashi Ibuka, Keisuke Kumada, Masahito Shimizu and Nobuhisa Matsuhashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:32
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  47. Non-obstructive intestinal ischemia (NOMI) is caused by intestinal vascular spasm and has a poor prognosis if not diagnosed and treated early. Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging has been reported to ...

    Authors: Ryohei Miyashita, Masato Kitazawa, Shigeo Tokumaru, Satoshi Nakamura, Makoto Koyama, Yuta Yamamoto, Nao Hondo, Satoru Miyazaki and Yuji Soejima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:31
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  48. Synovial sarcoma is a malignant tumor that constitutes up to 10% of all soft-tissue sarcomas. The most frequent metastatic sites of synovial sarcoma are the lungs, lymph nodes, and bone, whereas pancreatic met...

    Authors: Mitsuyoshi Okazaki, Kaoru Katano, Hiroaki Sugita, Tomokazu Tokoro, Ryousuke Gabata, Satoshi Takada, Shinichi Nakanuma, Isamu Makino and Shintaro Yagi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:30
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  49. Primary hepatic extranodal marginal zone B-cell mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is very rare, so it is difficult to diagnose preoperatively. And there is no established treatment for hepatic ...

    Authors: Keisuke Okura, Satoru Seo, Hironori Shimizu, Hiroto Nishino, Tomoaki Yoh, Ken Fukumitsu, Takamichi Ishii, Koichiro Hata, Hironori Haga and Etsuro Hatano
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:29
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  50. Hepatic lymphorrhea is a rare and serious complication of surgery for digestive tract cancers and is thought to occur as a result of lymph node dissection of the hepatoduodenal ligament. This complication resu...

    Authors: Kohei Harigane, Hiroshi Nemoto, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Hiromasa Komori, Hideki Sarukawa, Naoki Yazawa and Taku Miyamae
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2023 9:28
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