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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Spontaneous mesenteric hematoma (SMH) is a rare condition characterized by intraperitoneal hemorrhage of unknown etiology. SMH without worsening of general status allows conservative management; however, patie...

    Authors: Nobuhisa Tanioka, Hiromichi Maeda, Sachi Tsuda, Jun Iwabu, Tsutomu Namikawa, Mitsuko Iguchi and Kazuhiro Hanazaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:124
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  11. 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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  12. Hemorrhage due to a ruptured splanchnic pseudoaneurysm followed by the formation of a postoperative pancreatic fistula is the most severe complication of a pancreatectomy, sometimes leading to a fatal outcome....

    Authors: Masaru Nemoto, Ken Koyama, Midori Enokido, Shohei Kudo and Fuyo Yoshimi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:122
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  13. 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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  14. Various techniques are applied in laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of urachal remnants, which are less invasive and associated with lower morbidity. We herein report a case series in which we treated ura...

    Authors: Naoki Hashizume, Masahiro Ohtaki, Kouei Nihei, Kaoru Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Shirahata, Tetsuya Shimada, Eriko Ohta, Daisuke Yamai, Akihiro Takeshi, Kaito Sato, Satoshi Suzuki and Minoru Yagi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:120
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  16. Adenomyoepithelioma (AME) of the breast is a very rare tumor and is generally considered to be benign. However, some show malignant transformation, which results in local recurrences or distant metastases. The...

    Authors: Kazuki Moro, Eiko Sakata, Asa Nakahara, Hideki Hashidate, Emmanuel Gabriel and Haruhiko Makino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:118
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  17. Metastatic pancreatic tumors from lung cancer (MPTLC) constitute 3% of all metastatic pancreatic tumors. We present an extremely rare case of cystic MPTLC that was difficult to distinguish from intraductal pap...

    Authors: Akira Watanabe, Norifumi Harimoto, Takahiro Yamanaka, Norihiro Ishii, Mariko Tsukagoshi, Takamichi Igarashi, Norio Kubo, Kenichiro Araki, Aya Suzuki, Kenichiro Hara and Ken Shirabe
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:117
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  18. Although endoscopic interventions for chronic pancreatitis are highly developed, surgery for severe complicated cases such as the coexistence of bile duct, duodenum, and portal vein stenosis is a challenging i...

    Authors: Yuka Abe, Takafumi Kumamoto, Gakuryu Nakayama, Kentaro Miyake, Yasuhiro Yabushita, Yu Sawada, Yuki Homma, Kazuhisa Takeda, Ryusei Matsuyama and Itaru Endo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:116
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  19. Small bowel stenosis after blunt abdominal trauma is relatively rare, and progression from trauma to bowel stenosis might sometimes be delayed. Herein, we report the case of a patient who was diagnosed with sm...

    Authors: Kazushi Hara, Manabu Yamamoto, Teruhisa Sakamoto, Ken Sugezawa, Chihiro Uejima, Akimitsu Tanio, Yoichiro Tada, Takehiko Hanaki, Kozo Miyatani, Joji Watanabe, Kyoichi Kihara, Naruo Tokuyasu, Shuichi Takano, Soichiro Honjo and Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:115
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  20. While anastomotic leakage, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, and pneumonia are well-known complications of esophagectomy, the incidence of hiatal hernia after esophagectomy for carcinoma has been reported t...

    Authors: Takuro Konno-Kumagai, Tadashi Sakurai, Yusuke Taniyama, Chiaki Sato, Kai Takaya, Ken Ito and Takashi Kamei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:114
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  21. Celiac axis compression syndrome (CACS) is a relatively rare disease. Because of the nature of the blood flow in the celiac region when a pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) is performed for CACS, the celiac region can...

    Authors: Katsuki Miyazaki, Yuji Morine, Yu Saito, Shinichiro Yamada, Kazunori Tokuda, Tetsuya Ikemoto, Satoru Imura and Mitsuo Shimada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:113
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  22. We report a rare case of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) in Carney’s triad, successfully treated using laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection after chemotherapy.

    Authors: Yuhi Shimura, Shingo Kanaji, Naoki Urakawa, Masashi Yamamoto, Masako Utsumi, Gousuke Takiguchi, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yoshiko Matsuda, Kimihiro Yamashita, Takeru Matsuda, Taro Oshikiri, Tetsu Nakamura, Satoshi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Kakeji
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:112
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  23. Subtotal cholecystectomy is an effective surgical method to decrease the risk of complications for gallbladders that are difficult to remove. However, there is a risk for postoperative refractory bile leakage ...

    Authors: Tsukasa Aritake, Kenji Takagi, Natsuki Nagano, Ryutaro Kobayashi, Takashi Maeda, Kiyotaka Kawai, Satoru Kawai and Satoaki Kamiya
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:111
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  25. Spontaneous pneumothorax occurs more often in younger, slim, and shallow-chested men. Although less common, differential diagnoses for secondary pneumothorax in children are asthma, emphysematous blebs, catame...

    Authors: Hisayuki Miyagi, Daisuke Ishii, Masatoshi Hirasawa, Shunsuke Yasuda, Naohisa Toriumi, Takeo Sarashina, Mishie Tanino, Mio Tanaka, Yukichi Tanaka and Kazutoshi Miyamoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:109
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  26. Small bowel obstruction after gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction (R-Y reconstruction) is not a rare complication. However, patients who need re-operation for this complication have a high rate of postop...

    Authors: Teppei Kamada, Hironori Ohdaira, Sojun Hoshimoto, Satoshi Narihiro, Norihiko Suzuki, Rui Marukuchi, Hideyuki Takeuchi, Masashi Yoshida, Eigoro Yamanouchi and Yutaka Suzuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:108
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  27. Pancreatic hamartomas are rare entities and difficult to diagnose before resection. We report a case of resected pancreatic hamartoma and literature review of typical characteristics of the lesion.

    Authors: Hokahiro Katayama, Kyohei Azuma, Kenji Koneri, Makoto Murakami, Yasuo Hirono, Satomi Hatta, Yoshiaki Imamura and Takanori Goi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:107
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  29. Retroperitoneal liposarcoma (RPLS) is the most commonly observed soft tissue sarcoma in the retroperitoneal space. Although the beneficial effect of chemotherapy for RPLS is controversial, there are some repor...

    Authors: Yukihiro Yokoyama, Yoshihiro Nishida, Kunihiro Ikuta and Masato Nagino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:105
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  30. The Fontan procedure has been widely accepted for children with single ventricle physiology and guarantees survival rates of approximately 80% at age 20 years. However, there have been cases of Fontan-associat...

    Authors: Satoshi Nemoto, Shun-ichi Ariizumi, Yoshihito Kotera, Akiko Omori, Shingo Yamashita, Taka-aki Kato, Hiroto Egawa and Masakazu Yamamoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:104
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  31. Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is characterized by an intraluminal, growing papillary tumor covered by neoplastic biliary epithelial cells with a fine fibrovascular core. IPNB was intro...

    Authors: Rumi Matono, Mizuki Ninomiya, Kazutoyo Morita, Takahiro Tomino, Yumi Oshiro, Tomoyuki Yokota and Takashi Nishizaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:103
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  32. Stoma-related complications are not rare, whereas the spontaneous perforation of the stoma limb is relatively rare. Herein, we report a case of stoma limb perforation which occurred after Hartmann’s operation.

    Authors: Jun Kataoka, Toshikatsu Nitta, Masato Ota, Yuko Takashima, Miyuki Imanishi, Kensuke Fujii and Takashi Ishibashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:102
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  33. In a Fontan candidate, univentricular pacing may cause delay in interventricular conduction, which induces asynchronous contraction. Cardiac resynchronization therapy is expected to be an effective mode of the...

    Authors: Ai Sugimoto, Kiyohiro Takigiku, Shuichi Shiraishi, Masashi Takahashi and Masanori Tsuchida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:101
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  34. The observation of spontaneous regression (SR) has been well documented for many cancer types, including renal cell carcinoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, neuroblastoma, and malignant melanoma. However, ...

    Authors: Bunpei Nishiura, Kensuke Kumamoto, Shintaro Akamoto, Eisuke Asano, Yasuhisa Ando, Hironobu Suto, Takayoshi Kishino, Minoru Oshima, Masao Fujiwara, Hisashi Usuki, Keiichi Okano and Yasuyuki Suzuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:100
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  35. Gastric cancer that mimics a submucosal tumor (SMT) is infrequently encountered in routine clinical settings, and histopathological analysis is often negative for malignant cells. In such cases, excisional bio...

    Authors: Hiroki Ozawa, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Satoru Matsuda, Shuhei Mayanagi, Tomoyuki Irino, Kazumasa Fukuda, Rieko Nakamura, Norihito Wada and Yuko Kitagawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:99
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  36. Port site recurrence has been observed after a variety of oncologic resection procedures. However, few have reported port site recurrence of esophageal cancer.

    Authors: Taichi Horino, Yoshifumi Baba, Daichi Nomoto, Kazuto Harada, Yukiharu Hiyoshi, Yohei Nagai, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Shiro Iwagami, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:98
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  39. Several manufacturers are in the process of developing various innovative systems and expect more options in the robot market. One of the latest systems, the Senhance® platform (TransEnterix Surgical Inc, Morr...

    Authors: Hiroka Kondo, Shigeki Yamaguchi, Yasumitsu Hirano, Toshimasa Ishii, Nao Obara, Liming Wang, Masahiro Asari, Takuya Kato, Tetsuyoshi Takayama, Hirofumi Sugita, Shinichi Sakuramoto and Isamu Koyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:95
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  40. Hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) is conventionally considered a rare benign liver tumor, but advanced studies have revealed that HCA is heterogeneous, and may include a type that is prone to malignant transformati...

    Authors: Kouki Hoshino, Norifumi Harimoto, Ryo Muranushi, Kei Hagiwara, Takahiro Yamanaka, Norihiro Ishii, Mariko Tsukagoshi, Takamichi Igarashi, Akira Watanabe, Norio Kubo, Kenichiro Araki, Ran Tomomasa, Sumihito Nobusawa, Shinichi Aishima, Osamu Nakashima and Ken Shirabe
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:94
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  41. IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune-mediated disorder in which abundant IgG4-positive plasma cells infiltrate affected organs. There have been reported four cases of probable IgG4-RD presenting as a su...

    Authors: Taishi Yamane, Kojiro Eto, Takeshi Morinaga, Kazuki Matsumura, Kohei Yamashita, Ryuma Tokunaga, Kazuto Harada, Yukiharu Hiyoshi, Yohei Nagai, Masaki Iwatsuki, Shiro Iwagami, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:93
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  42. The standard surgical method for symptomatic submucosal tumors (SMTs) or tumors with unclear biological behavior is enucleation. Minimally invasive approaches are usually considered appropriate for surgical en...

    Authors: Koki Oyama, Kenoki Ohuchida, Koji Shindo, Taiki Moriyama, Yoshitaka Hata, Masafumi Wada, Eikichi Ihara, Shuntaro Nagai, Takao Ohtsuka and Masafumi Nakamura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:92
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  43. Biliary bleeding is a condition reported by Sandblom as hemobilia. The most common cause of hemobilia is iatrogenicity. But it has also been reported as a rare complication after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (...

    Authors: Takehiro Abiko, Yuma Ebihara, Motoya Takeuchi, Hiroki Sakamoto, Hisato Homma and Satoshi Hirano
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:91
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  44. Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is a benign disorder. It is usually observed in the skin, orbit, thyroid, lung, breast, or gastrointestinal tract, but rarely in the liver. Since the first repo...

    Authors: Hiroki Kanno, Hisamune Sakai, Toru Hisaka, Satoki Kojima, Ryuta Midorikawa, Shogo Fukutomi, Yoriko Nomura, Yuichi Goto, Toshihiro Sato, Munehiro Yoshitomi, Ryuichi Kawahara and Koji Okuda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:90
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  45. Portal annular pancreas (PAP) is a rare pancreatic anomaly in which the uncinate process wraps annularly around the portal vein and fuses to the body of the pancreas. PAP is highly relevant to the development ...

    Authors: Naohisa Kuriyama, Tomohide Hatanaka, Kazuaki Gyoten, Aoi Hayasaki, Takehiro Fujii, Yusuke Iizawa, Hiroyuki Kato, Yasuhiro Murata, Akihiro Tanemura, Masashi Kishiwada, Hiroyuki Sakurai and Shugo Mizuno
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:89
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  46. Despite recent advances in systemic chemotherapy, the prognosis of patients with peritoneal metastases from gastric cancer still remains poor. Nonetheless, several efficacious intraperitoneal chemotherapy regi...

    Authors: Kozo Miyatani, Wataru Miyauchi, Yusuke Kono, Yuji Shishido, Joji Watanabe, Takehiko Hanaki, Kyoichi Kihara, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Manabu Yamamoto, Yoji Fukumoto, Naruo Tokuyasu, Shuichi Takano, Teruhisa Sakamoto, Soichiro Honjo, Toshimichi Hasegawa and Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:88
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  47. Primary breast lymphoma is rare. Occurrence rates of malignant breast tumors in children are also quite low. We herein report a B-lymphoblastic lymphoma of the breast arisen in an adolescent girl. To the best ...

    Authors: Yumiko Ishizuka, Yoshiya Horimoto, Junya Fujimura, Kozue Ogata, Fumi Murakami, Hiroko Onagi, Atsushi Arakawa and Mitsue Saito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:87
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  48. Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) to the gallbladder is rare, and its clinicopathological feature remains poorly understood. We here present two cases of gallbladder metastasis from RCC presenting as a ...

    Authors: Takuya Oba, Norihiro Sato, Toshihisa Tamura, Katsushi Fujimoto, Atsuji Matsuyama and Keiji Hirata
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:86
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  49. Laparoscopic gastrectomy is regarded a standard treatment procedure for early gastric cancer and is widely used in clinical practice. However, the feasibility of laparoscopic gastrectomy for patients with a pr...

    Authors: Ko Ikegame, Makoto Hikage, Satoshi Kamiya, Yutaka Tanizawa, Etsuro Bando and Masanori Terashima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2020 6:84
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