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  1. Locoregional recurrence and metastasis to the liver, peritoneum, and lung are the most common recurrent patterns of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) after radical resection. Recurrence in the abdominal ...

    Authors: Shunya Iio, Yuto Hozaka, Kiyonori Tanoue, Tetsuya Idichi, Kousuke Fukuda, Taiki Nakashima, Ryutaro Yasudome, Yoichi Yamasaki, Yota Kawasaki, Takaaki Arigami, Akihiro Nakajo, Michiyo Higashi, Yuko Mataki, Hiroshi Kurahara and Takao Ohtsuka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:101
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  2. Traumatic tension gastrothorax is a rare and potentially fatal condition occurring in patients with congenital or acquired diaphragmatic defects. Traumatic tension gastrothorax leads to acute and severe respir...

    Authors: Yuki Mochida, Ryohei Nishizawa, Koji Ochiai, Yoshitaka Inoue, Yasuhiko Kaita and Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:100
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  3. Multiple primary malignancies of breast cancer and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are rare. Here, we report a case of advanced breast cancer and DLBCL managed with multidisciplinary therapy preceded by ...

    Authors: Yuichi Ueda, Yuko Makino, Taro Tochigi, Yoshikazu Ota, Hideki Hidaka, Takeshi Nakamura, Kiichiro Beppu, Jiro Ohuchida, Seiichi Odate, Soshi Terasaka, Takahiro Nishida, Masaki Yoshida, Ryuichiro Kimura, Kousuke Marutsuka and Naoki Otomo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:99
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  4. The usefulness of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with duodenal adenocarcinoma remains unclear. We report the case of a successfully resected duodenal adenocarcinoma managed by neoadjuvant chemotherapy u...

    Authors: Jiro Kimura, Kenta Sui, Motoyasu Tabuchi, Takahiro Murokawa, Shinya Sakamoto, Jun Iwata, Manabu Matsumoto and Takehiro Okabayashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:98
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  5. Ceftriaxone, a third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic with a long plasma half-life, is widely used to treat various infections. The use of ceftriaxone can sometimes induce biliary sludge or stone formation....

    Authors: Tsunehiko Shigemori, Ichiro Imoto, Yasuhiro Inoue, Ryo Nishiwaki, Natsuko Sugimasa, Tetsuya Hamaguchi, Midori Noji, Kenji Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki Ito, Taro Yasuma, Esteban C. Gabazza and Toshio Kato
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:97
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  6. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected patients are at high risk for developing severe conditions if other comorbidities are present, such as advanced cancer. Although the regula...

    Authors: Hikari Jimbo, Yoshiya Horimoto, Makoto Hiki, Yoko Tabe, Junichiro Watanabe, Mitsue Saito and Toshio Naito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:96
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  7. Gastric cancer is relatively prone to metastasis, although distant metastasis is rare during the early stage of disease. Here we report a rare case of schwannoma-associated Virchow metastasis of a patient with...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Hara, Kenichi Nakamura, Shiro Iwagami, Katsuhiro Ogawa, Hiroshi Sawayama, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Yoshifumi Baba, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:95
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  8. Cardiac injury, including myocardial contusion and valvular damage, is a common complication of blunt chest trauma; however, traumatic ventricular septal rupture is a rare complication. We encountered a rare c...

    Authors: Masato Tochii, Hirotaka Watanuki, Kayo Sugiyama, Yasuhiro Futamura, Hiroshi Ishikawa and Katsuhiko Matsuyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:94
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  10. Chylous ascites (CA) is a rare complication of gastrectomy for gastric cancer. While most cases of postoperative CA improve with medication or nutritional support, some are refractory to conservative treatment...

    Authors: Shinya Sakamoto, Nobuo Takata, Yoshihiro Noda, Kazuhide Ozaki and Takehiro Okabayashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:92
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  11. Jejunogastric intussusception (JGI) is a rare, but potentially fatal complication that can occur following gastric surgery, and the reported incidence of JGI is as low as 0.1%. Early diagnosis and treatment ar...

    Authors: Konosuke Yogo, Masanori Sando, Ryutaro Kobayashi, Genta Yano, Noriaki Ohara, Kiyotaka Kawai, Kenji Takagi, Satoru Kawai and Satoaki Kamiya
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:91
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  13. Synchronous lymphoma and adenocarcinoma are occasionally detected in the stomach. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and adenocarcinoma are sometimes seen simultaneously in the stomach. However, we rarely o...

    Authors: Toshiyasu Ojima, Hirotaka Tabata and Hiroki Yamaue
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:89
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  14. Gastric cancer rarely metastasizes to the gallbladder. Furthermore, there has never been a case report of simultaneous gallbladder metastasis from residual gastric cancer. Here, we report a case of synchronous...

    Authors: Ami Kawamoto, Koichi Kimura, Kosuke Hirose, Takuma Izumi, Daisuke Taniguchi, Hiroko Yano, Yuichiro Kajiwara, Ryosuke Minagawa, Kazuhito Minami, Yumi Oshiro and Takashi Nishizaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:88
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  15. Simple hepatic cysts are common lesions in adults, but rare in children. Because of their benign nature, simple hepatic cysts may not be detected until they grow too large to be diagnosed and resected in a min...

    Authors: Nozomi Matsushita, Kenitiro Kaneko, Shoko Kato, Takayuki Odashima, Remi Kondo, Takahiro Fukuyama, Takuya Saito, Yasuyuki Fukami, Shunichiro Komatsu and Tsuyoshi Sano
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:87
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  16. Metanephric adenoma (MA) is a rare benign renal tumor that resembles renal cell carcinoma and Wilms’ tumor in radiological as well as pathological appearance. It can present at any age or gender, and it is ext...

    Authors: Osama M. Sarhan, Ahmed Al Farhan, Salma Abdallah, Hamzah Al Ghwanmah, Deena Boqari, Helmy Omar, Abdulmohsin Al Faddagh, Hanan Al Kanani and Fouad Al Kawai
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:86
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  17. Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) primarily occurs in children; it is rarely seen in adults and appears to have a poor prognosis. However, in recent years, some cases indicated that long-t...

    Authors: Yukiko Kumata Endo, Atsushi Fujio, Keigo Murakami, Kengo Sasaki, Koji Miyazawa, Toshiaki Kashiwadate, Kazuaki Tokodai, Shigehito Miyagi, Fumiyoshi Fujishima, Michiaki Unno and Takashi Kamei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:85
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  18. Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma (PBML) is a rare disease that can occur in women with a history of uterine leiomyoma. Despite its benign histological features, like a malignancy, leiomyomas can on rar...

    Authors: Takahiro Yanagihara, Naohiro Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kawamura, Shinji Kikuchi, Yukinobu Goto, Hideo Ichimura and Yukio Sato
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:84
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  19. Anastomotic stenosis can occur after esophagectomy and gastric tube reconstruction. The effective surgical treatment for refractory anastomotic stenosis, which seems difficult to resolve with endoscopic treatm...

    Authors: Kazuya Yamaguchi, Shigeo Haruki, Masayoshi Sakano, Kunihito Suzuki and Akinori Miura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:83
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  20. Many types of tumors can arise in the esophagogastric junction (EGJ). Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) arising from the esophageal epithelia, adenocarcinoma arising from the gastric mucosa, or Barrett’s esophagea...

    Authors: Harunari Fukai, Naohiko Koide, Naoe Yanagisawa, Yoshinori Koyama, Nami Kitagawa, Yuu Ogihara and Maki Ohya
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:82
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  21. Multiple deep organ abscesses associated with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SAB) have a high mortality rate, requiring rapid removal or drainage of infective foci with long-term appropriate antimic...

    Authors: Hironobu Wada, Yuki Shina, Toshiko Kamata, Fumihiro Ishibashi, Hajime Tamura, Masahiro Toriumi, Kyoichi Matsuzaki and Shigetoshi Yoshida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:81
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  22. Pulmonary hemorrhage is a life-threatening complication of cardiovascular surgery. Bronchial artery hypertrophy, a rare pathology associated with inflammatory and ischemic respiratory diseases, increases the r...

    Authors: Shinji Abe, Yasuhiro Kamikubo, Nobuyasu Kato, Hiroki Kato, Tomonori Ooka, Yasushige Shingu and Satoru Wakasa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:80
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  23. Undifferentiated carcinoma is a very rare histologic subtype, representing only 0.8% to 5.7% of all pancreatic exocrine neoplasms. Additionally, spontaneous abdominal hemorrhage is a particularly rare, life-th...

    Authors: Hideo Tomihara, Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Hajime Ishikawa, Daisuke Terashita, Atsushi Gakuhara, Shuichi Fukuda, Katsuya Ohta, Kotaro Kitani, Jin-ichi Hida, Tomoko Wakasa and Yutaka Kimura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:79
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  24. Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes refer to a group of neurological disorders, which occur as distant effects of malignant tumors and are not caused by metastasis, nutritional disorders, or side effects of ...

    Authors: Takuto Yoshida, Hideki Kawamura, Kazuhiro Mino, Yuji Konishi, Tomoya Saito, Yuichi Shimizu and Akinobu Taketomi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:78
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  25. A 78-year-old male presented with a positive fecal occult blood test. Rectal cancer was detected during lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, and further investigations led to a diagnosis of cT1N0M0 cStage I (UICC...

    Authors: Ryo Nakanishi, Atsuko Tsutsui, Hiroto Tanaka, Kohei Mishima, Chie Hagiwara, Takahiro Ozaki, Kazuharu Igarashi, Satoru Ishii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kenji Omura and Go Wakabayashi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:77
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  27. The risk of thrombus development is considered to be increased by malignant tumors and chemotherapy. In addition, thrombosis of the ascending aorta is rare. We report a case of ascending aortic thrombectomy in...

    Authors: Noriaki Sato, Takehito Mishima, Yuka Okubo, Takeshi Okamoto, Shuichi Shiraishi and Masanori Tsuchida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:75
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  28. Necrotizing fasciitis after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) has never been reported. We experienced a case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by pseudoaneurysmal hemorrhage after PD.

    Authors: Lulu Li, Kyohei Abe, Tomoyoshi Okamoto, Michinori Matsumoto, Yasuro Futagawa, Masaru Kanehira and Toru Ikegami
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:74
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  29. The patient was a 61-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus who had undergone ileocecal resection for ascending colon carcinoma 5 years earlier, followed by a postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy wi...

    Authors: Yoshiaki Tanji, Kenei Furukawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Mitsuru Yanagaki, Koichiro Haruki, Yoshihiro Shirai, Tomohiko Taniai, Takeshi Gocho, Norimitsu Okui and Toru Ikegami
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:73
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  30. Early type IIIb endoleak is a very rare complication of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).

    Authors: Satoshi Takahashi, Toshiya Nishibe, Masaki Kano, Shinobu Akiyama, Toru Iwahashi and Hitoshi Ogino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:72
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  31. Resuscitative thoracotomy is a lifesaving procedure for trauma patients that are hemodynamically unstable. Cross-clamping of the descending thoracic aorta is an essential procedure performed during resuscitati...

    Authors: Atsushi Tanikawa, Takeaki Sato, Motoo Fujita, Chieri Tsuchiya, Ken Katsuta, Yusuke Suzuki, Kiichiro Kumagai, Yoshikatsu Saiki and Shigeki Kushimoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:71
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  32. Gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach (GAPPS) is a rare disease and characterized by a unique point mutation in the promoter 1B region of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene. There...

    Authors: Yosuke Iwakawa, Kozo Yoshikawa, Koichi Okamoto, Tetsuji Takayama, Takuya Tokunaga, Toshihiro Nakao, Masaaki Nishi, Chie Takasu, Hideya Kashihara, Yuma Wada, Toshiaki Yoshimoto, Shoko Yamashita and Mitsuo Shimada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:70
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  33. Shanghai fever is a rare community-acquired enteric illness with sepsis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cases of Shanghai fever in pediatric patients have been reported; however, to the best of our knowledge, t...

    Authors: Taichi Horino, Tatsunori Miyata, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Kosuke Ono, Asuka Ono, Yoshiyuki Tagayasu, Daichi Nomoto, Takao Mizumoto, Tatsuo Kubota, Nobutomo Miyanari and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:69
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  34. Most cardiac myxomas occur in the atria. Myxomas arising from the heart valves are rare, and there are only a few reports of myxomas arising from the pulmonary valve. Complete resection and prevention of embol...

    Authors: Sawaka Tanabe, Keita Yano, Tae Mizunaga, Yuko Kawamura, Atsushi Takamori, Narihisa Yamada, Koichi Morioka and Takaaki Koshiji
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:68
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  35. Pancreatoduodenectomy including resection of the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) is increasingly performed for right-sided pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma invading the wall of that vessel. Various venous graft...

    Authors: Yuki Takahashi, Kenichi Matsuo, Hideyuki Oyama, Ryuichi Sekine, Akihiro Nakamura, Tsuneyuki Uchida, Mikio Makuuchi and Kuniya Tanaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:67
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  36. Congenital tracheal stenosis (CTS) is a rare and life-threatening airway disorder, which is often associated with cardiac malformations. Among them, neonatal symptomatic CTS with cardiac malformations has an e...

    Authors: Marie Todo, Hiroomi Okuyama, Ryuta Saka, Yuko Tazuke, Takayoshi Ueno and Yoshiki Sawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:66
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  37. Acute arterial embolization caused by a free-floating thrombus of the false lumen after surgery for acute aortic dissection is a rare complication; hence, determining its cause may be difficult. We report a ca...

    Authors: Riha Shimizu, Makoto Sumi, Yuri Murakami and Takao Ohki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:65
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  38. Calcifying fibrous tumors (CFTs) are rare benign tumors. Because CFTs sometimes relapse, radical resection with adequate margins is necessary. We report a case of ileal CFT resected using single-port laparosco...

    Authors: Kazuya Takabatake, Tomohiro Arita, Yoshiaki Kuriu, Hiroki Shimizu, Jun Kiuchi, Wataru Takaki, Hirotaka Konishi, Yusuke Yamamoto, Ryo Morimura, Atsushi Shiozaki, Hisashi Ikoma, Takeshi Kubota, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Kazuma Okamoto, Yuta Sonobe, Noriyuki Tanaka…
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:64
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  39. Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare parasitic disease caused by the larva of Echinococcus multilocularis. It nearly always occurs in the liver, and cardiac involvement is extremely rare. Liver resection is the...

    Authors: Yoichi Yamamoto, Yuzuru Sakamoto, Toshiya Kamiyama, Akihisa Nagatsu, Yoh Asahi, Tatsuya Orimo, Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Hirofumi Kamachi, Takuya Otsuka, Tomoko Mitsuhashi and Akinobu Taketomi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:63
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  40. Dropped gallstones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) sometimes induce postoperative infectious complications. However, pleural empyema rarely occurs as a complication of LC.

    Authors: Aya Tokuda, Hiromitsu Maehira, Hiroya Iida, Haruki Mori, Nobuhito Nitta, Takeru Maekawa, Katsushi Takebayashi, Sachiko Kaida, Toru Miyake, Ryo Kuroda, Haruka Yamamoto and Masaji Tani
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:62
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  41. Solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas are rare. Moreover, pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) and postoperative care are not common in pediatric surgery. Herein, we report a case of PD and nonalcoholic fatty ...

    Authors: Toshio Sawai, Shogo Zuo, Taichi Terai, Satoshi Nishiwada, Kenji Nakagawa, Minako Nagai, Takehiro Akahori, Hiromichi Kanehiro and Masayuki Sho
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:61
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  42. Cavitary lesions pathologically diagnosed as adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) have been rarely reported. The examination of these type of lesions is necessary for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlyin...

    Authors: Takashi Sakai, Yoko Azuma, Satoshi Koezuka, Hajime Otsuka, Atsushi Sano, Naobumi Tochigi and Akira Iyoda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:60
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  43. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)–tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been approved for the therapy of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) caused by ALK rearrangement. However, its treatment ...

    Authors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kazuyuki Komori, Koji Kameda, Shinichi Taguchi and Yuichi Ozeki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:59
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  44. In recent years, conversion surgery after chemotherapy has been considered a promising strategy for improving the prognosis of patients with stage IV gastric cancer. However, there are few reports on conversio...

    Authors: Kosuke Fukuda, Takaaki Arigami, Koki Tokuda, Shigehiro Yanagita, Daisuke Matsushita, Yota Kawasaki, Satoshi Iino, Ken Sasaki, Akihiro Nakajo, Mari Kirishima, Akihide Tanimoto, Hitoshi Tsubouchi, Hiroshi Kurahara and Takao Ohtsuka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:58
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  45. Anal metastasis of colorectal cancer is very rare and may present synchronously or metachronously, regardless of pre-existing anal diseases. We report a case of anal fistula metastasis after completion of neoa...

    Authors: Shota Fukai, Shingo Tsujinaka, Yasuyuki Miyakura, Natsumi Matsuzawa, Yuuri Hatsuzawa, Ryo Maemoto, Nao Kakizawa and Toshiki Rikiyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:57
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  46. Lymphangioma is a non-epithelial tumor marked by aggregates of abnormally dilated lymphatics. Mesenteric occurrences account for < 1% of all cases, and < 0.05% involve the gastrointestinal tract. Most are conf...

    Authors: Hiroka Kondo, Takeshi Ohki, Shimpei Ogawa, Teppei Omori, Hiromi Onizuka, Yoji Nagashima and Shigeki Yamaguchi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:56
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  47. Protrusion of the lateral contour of the pancreatic head is a pancreatic morphological abnormality, which is known as rare shape atypia. We present a rare case of protrusion of the lateral contour of the pancr...

    Authors: Takuto Yoshida, Hideki Kawamura, Kazuhiro Mino, Yuji Konishi, Tomoya Saito, Yuichi Shimizu and Akinobu Taketomi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:55
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  48. Tracheobronchial injury in children is rare but can be highly fatal in severe cases. Therefore, prompt diagnosis and treatment are required. The appropriate treatment method depends on the extent and severity ...

    Authors: Yamato Suzuki, Hisato Ishizawa, Hiroshi Kawai, Yasushi Matsuda and Yasushi Hoshikawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:54
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  49. Enteric duplication is a congenital disease that occurs throughout the entire gastrointestinal tract. Although it may sometimes cause intestinal volvulus, a few reports have described cases of enteric duplicat...

    Authors: Makoto Matsukubo, Mitsuru Muto, Chihiro Kedoin, Mayu Matsui, Masakazu Murakami, Koshiro Sugita, Keisuke Yano, Shun Onishi, Toshio Harumatsu, Koji Yamada, Waka Yamada, Tatsuru Kaji and Satoshi Ieiri
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:53
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  50. Brain metastasis of colorectal cancer is infrequent, and isolated brain metastases are more infrequent. Thus, when neurological symptoms, such as paralysis or disturbance of consciousness appear, there is a hi...

    Authors: Yoshiyuki Tagayasu, Yuji Miyamoto, Hiroshi Sawayama, Katsuhiro Ogawa, Rikako Kato, Naoya Yoshida, Akitake Mukasa and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:52
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