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  1. We report a case of successful laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection preserving the common hepatic artery branched from the left gastric artery for advanced gastric cancer with an Adach...

    Authors: Hironobu Goto, Takashi Yasuda, Taro Oshikiri, Tatsuya Imanishi, Hironori Yamashita, Masato Oyama, Keitaro Kakinoki, Tadayuki Ohara, Hiroyoshi Sendo, Yasuhiro Fujino, Masahiro Tominaga and Yoshihiro Kakeji
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:55
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  2. It has been reported that use of the free dermal fat graft (FDFG) technique produces a good cosmetic outcome for breast cancer. An FDFG is harvested from the lower abdomen as a columnar-shaped specimen and imp...

    Authors: Hiroaki Shima, Goro Kutomi, Takuro Kyuno, Fukino Satomi, Satoko Uno, Hideki Maeda, Hidekazu Kameshima, Tosei Omura, Yasutoshi Kimura, Toru Mizuguchi, Koichi Hirata and Ichiro Takemasa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:54
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  3. Pulmonary hamartomas are more common than expected because they are usually asymptomatic and are either discovered on routine chest radiography or when they are noted incidentally in approximately 0.25 % of au...

    Authors: Yoshinobu Ichiki, Junji Kawasaki, Takayuki Hamatsu, Taketoshi Suehiro, Ryo Shibuya, Atsuji Matsuyama, Fumihiro Tanaka, Masanori Hisaoka and Keizo Sugimachi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:53
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  4. We report an unusual case of gastric carcinosarcoma with rhabdomyosarcomatous and neudoendocrinal differentiation in a 71-year-old Japanese female. Gastric carcinosarcoma with rhabdomyosarcomatous and neuroend...

    Authors: Masashi Fujiie, Manabu Yamamoto, Kenichi Taguchi, Ayako Iwanaga, Kippei Ohgaki, Akinori Egashira, Kazuhito Minami, Yasushi Toh, Yoshinao Oda and Takeshi Okamura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:52
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  5. Cecal volvulus is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in patients. Cecal volvulus is currently treated mostly with right hemicolectomy with laparotomy, which is an invasive surgical procedure. Less invasive tec...

    Authors: Yoshinori Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, Atsushi Naito, Yoshihiro Morimoto, Yasufumi Sato, Ryuichi Kuwahara, Tomo Ishida, Yasuo Oneda, Kohei Murakami, Junichi Inatome, Yoshiteru Katsura, Yoshiaki Ohmura, Atsushi Takeno, Chiyomi Egawa, Yutaka Takeda and Shigeyuki Tamura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:51
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  6. Although the effectiveness of perioperative adjuvant therapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been investigated, the efficacy of preoperative therapy is unclear. Herein, we report a case ...

    Authors: Keisuke Arai, Takumi Fukumoto, Motofumi Tanaka, Kaori Kuramitsu, Masahiro Kido, Hisoka Kinoshita, Taku Matsumoto, Hirochika Toyama, Sadaki Asari, Tadahiro Goto, Tetsuo Ajiki and Yonson Ku
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:50
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  7. The possible benefits of the surgical resection of multiple metastases in rare sites from colorectal cancer (CRC) are still unclear. Therefore, more cases are needed to investigate the surgical outcomes of the...

    Authors: Hitoshi Hino, Hiroyasu Kagawa, Yusuke Kinugasa, Akio Shiomi, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Yushi Yamakawa, Masakatsu Numata, Teiichi Sugiura and Katsuhiko Uesaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:49
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  8. A 62-year-old woman was admitted for acute epigastralgia and high-grade fever of over 39 °C. The patient had undergone splenectomy for idiopathic portal hypertension 1 year ago and vaccination against Streptococc...

    Authors: Kosuke Hirose, Hirohisa Okabe, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Hideaki Uchiyama, Toru Ikegami, Norifumi Harimoto, Shinji Itoh, Koichi Kimura, Hideo Baba and Yoshihiko Maehara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:48
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  9. A 43-year-old female was referred to our hospital for sudden onset of abdominal pain, fullness, and vomiting. Physical examination revealed abdominal distension with mild epigastric tenderness. Abdominal radio...

    Authors: Jiro Omata, Katsuyuki Utsunomiya, Yoshiki Kajiwara, Risa Takahata, Nobuo Miyasaka, Hidekazu Sugasawa, Naoko Sakamoto, Yoji Yamagishi, Makiko Fukumura, Daiki Kitagawa, Mitsuhiko Konno, Yasushi Okusa and Michinori Murayama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:47
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  10. Resection and reconstruction of the pulmonary artery during lobectomy is a safe and effective procedure for centrally located lung cancer. We usually choose a pericardial conduit to repair a large defect of th...

    Authors: Ayako Hirai, Shuichi Shinohara, Taiji Kuwata, Masaru Takenaka, Yasuhiro Chikaishi, Soichi Oka, Koji Kuroda, Naoko Imanishi and Fumihiro Tanaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:46
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  11. Surgical interventions for symptomatic gallstone disease could be dangerous in patients with severe comorbid conditions including liver cirrhosis. Here, we report our experience of living donor liver transplan...

    Authors: Yuki Bekki, Toru Ikegami, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Takashi Motomura, Shinji Itoh, Noboru Harada, Norifumi Harimoto, Hideaki Uchiyama, Tomoharu Yoshizumi and Yoshihiko Maehara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:45
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  12. A nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve (NRILN) is found more frequently on the right side than on the left, and it is closely associated with an aberrant right subclavian artery. The presence of the aberrant ...

    Authors: Kumiko Kato, Yasuo Toriumi, Makiko Kamio, Hiroko Nogi, Hisashi Shioya and Hiroshi Takeyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:44
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  13. Asymptomatic rupture of a sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is rare. A fistula following rupture of a sinus of Valsalva aneurysm may cause infective endocarditis. Here, we report a case of infective endocarditis of a...

    Authors: Akihiko Ikeda, Tomomi Nakajima, Taisuke Konishi, Kanji Matsuzaki, Akinori Sugano, Yuko Fumikura, Hidetaka Nishina and Tomoaki Jikuya
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:43
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  14. Intestinal metastasis of angiosarcoma is extremely rare. We herein report a case of intestinal perforation due to intestinal metastasis of angiosarcoma. The patient was a 72-year-old Japanese man with multiple...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Uchihara, Yu Imamura, Shiro Iwagami, Ikko Kajihara, Hisashi Kanemaru, Ryuichi Karashima, Satoshi Ida, Takatsugu Ishimoto, Yoshifumi Baba, Yasuo Sakamoto, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida, Masayuki Watanabe, Ken-ichi Iyama, Hironobu Ihn and Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:42
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  15. We herein report a case of a bronchogenic cyst arising from the esophagogastric junction treated by laparoscopic full-thickness extirpation. The full-thickness defect was closed by hand sewing a T-shaped line ...

    Authors: Akiko Tonouchi, Takahiro Kinoshita, Hideki Sunagawa, Takuya Hamakawa, Akio Kaito, Hidehito Shibasaki, Takeshi Kuwata, Yosuke Seki and Toshirou Nishida
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:41
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  16. A colopleural fistula is a rare condition reported to be caused by Crohn’s disease, a malignant tumor of the gastrointestinal tract, and other clinical conditions. Some studies have noted that a sub-diaphragma...

    Authors: Akio Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Susaki, Naoko Ose, Yukiyasu Takeuchi and Hajime Maeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:40
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  17. Acinar cell cystadenoma (ACA) of the pancreas has been newly recognized as an entity by the World Health Organization (WHO) definition (2010), and its pathogenesis has not been known adequately because of the ...

    Authors: Haruyoshi Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Hatsuno, Mitsuru Kinoshita, Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiromasa Ishihara, Nao Takano, Satofumi Shimoyama, Hiroshi Nakayama, Masato Kataoka, Shu Ichihara, Mitsuro Kanda, Yasuhiro Kodera and Ken Kondo
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:39
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  18. We present a successful case of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for chronic Stanford type B aortic dissection (B-AD) with recurrent ischemic colitis. The patient was a 56-year-old woman with abdomi...

    Authors: Yuko Miyazaki, Tadashi Furuyama, Yutaka Matsubara, Keiji Yoshiya, Ryosuke Yoshiga, Kentaro Inoue, Daisuke Matsuda, Yukihiko Aoyagi, Masaaki Kato, Takuya Matsumoto and Yoshihiko Maehara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:38
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  20. The majority of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients have gastrointestinal tract involvement, but therapies of prokinetic agents are usually unsatisfactory. Patients are often compromised by the use of steroid; t...

    Authors: Ryo Kato, Kiyokazu Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yasuhiro Miyazaki, Tomoki Makino, Yukinori Kurokawa, Makoto Yamasaki, Shuji Takiguchi, Masaki Mori and Yuichiro Doki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:36
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  23. A 44-year-old man consulted an internist because of abnormalities in an upper gastrointestinal series. It showed an elevated lesion with central depression in the greater curvature of the middle part of the st...

    Authors: Ryota Otsuka, Masayuki Kano, Hideki Hayashi, Naoyuki Hanari, Hisashi Gunji, Koichi Hayano and Hisahiro Matsubara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:33
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  24. Although it occurs worldwide, hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in developed countries is generally foodborne. HEV infection is subclinical in most individuals. Although fulminant liver failure may occur, prog...

    Authors: Takeshi Kurihara, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Shinji Itoh, Norifumi Harimoto, Noboru Harada, Toru Ikegami, Yuki Inagaki, Yukio Oshiro, Nobuhiro Ohkohchi, Hiroaki Okamoto and Yoshihiko Maehara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:32
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  25. Angiomyolipoma (AML) arising in the liver is rare and usually benign, but it occasionally has malignant potential. A 58-year-old man with a liver tumor identified by a previous doctor with features suggestive ...

    Authors: Yasunari Fukuda, Hideyasu Omiya, Koji Takami, Kiyoshi Mori, Yoshinori Kodama, Masayuki Mano, Yoriko Nomura, Jun Akiba, Hirohisa Yano, Osamu Nakashima, Mitsumasa Ogawara, Eiji Mita, Shoji Nakamori and Mitsugu Sekimoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:31
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  26. Esophageal duplication cyst is a rare congenital anomaly resulting from a foregut budding error during the fourth to sixth week of embryonic development. Cervical esophageal duplication cysts are very rare and...

    Authors: Shoko Kawashima, Osamu Segawa, Shuri Kimura, Masayoshi Tsuchiya, Nobuhide Henmi, Hisaya Hasegawa, Mariko Fujibayashi and Yoshihiko Naritaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:30
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  27. The incidence of hepatobiliary malignancies, and especially intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), for patients with Wilson’s disease (WD), is very low, even for cirrhotic patients. A 44-year-old male was admi...

    Authors: Yosuke Mukai, Hiroshi Wada, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Daisaku Yamada, Tadafumi Asaoka, Takehiro Noda, Koichi Kawamoto, Kunihito Gotoh, Yutaka Takeda, Masahiro Tanemura, Koji Umeshita, Yumiko Hori, Eiichi Morii, Yuichiro Doki and Masaki Mori
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:29
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  28. Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm originating from follicular dendritic cells, and most of them develop in lymph nodes of the head and neck. One third of follicular dendritic cell ...

    Authors: Ryo Miyoshi, Makoto Sonobe, Ei Miyamoto and Hiroshi Date
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:28
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  29. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been recently adapted to acute cholecystitis. Major bile duct injury during LC, especially Strasberg-Bismuth classification type E, can be a critical problem sometimes req...

    Authors: Naruhiko Honmyo, Shintaro Kuroda, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kohei Ishiyama, Kentaro Ide, Hiroyuki Tahara, Masahiro Ohira and Hideki Ohdan
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:27
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  30. A 61-year-old woman was diagnosed with right inguinal lymph node and splenic metastasis of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma. We performed right inguinal lymph node dissection and total laparoscopic splenectom...

    Authors: Yoshiaki Takase, Naoki Tomizawa, Yasuaki Enokida, Takuya Shiraishi, Ryuji Katoh, Yujin Suto, Hiroaki Sato, Ken Muroya, Ryo Kurosaki, Katsumi Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Arakawa, Tatsumasa Ando and Izumi Takesyohi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:26
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  31. Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is widely used as an effective treatment of liver tumors. Several reported complications associated with RFA are due to thermal damage of neighboring organs. The pres...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Abe, Hironobu Amano, Hitomi Takechi, Nobuaki Fujikuni, Tatsunari Sasada, Makoto Yoshida, Minoru Yamaki, Masahiro Nakahara and Toshio Noriyuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:25
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  32. Pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) is an extensive surgery, and its complications are grave. Acute ischemia of the jejunal loop due to thrombosis of the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) and its branches is one of the mo...

    Authors: Hiroto Kayashima, Takashi Maeda, Noboru Harada, Takanobu Masuda, Takahiro Ohmine, Shohei Yamaguchi, Ayumi Matsuyama, Motoharu Hamatake, Shinichi Tsutsui and Hiroyuki Matsuda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:24
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  34. There were a few reports of patients with lung cancer developing at the wall of giant bullae complicated with hemorrhage. A 40-year-old male with complaints of hemoptysis was referred to our hospital, and a so...

    Authors: Shota Nakamura, Koji Kawaguchi, Takayuki Fukui, Koichi Fukumoto, Toshiki Okasaka and Kohei Yokoi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:22
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  35. A 74-year-old female was diagnosed as having a carcinoma of the papilla of Vater. Preoperative computed tomography showed stenosis of the celiac trunk and an enlarged artery arising from the superior mesenteri...

    Authors: Yumiko Kageyama, Takashi Kokudo, Katsumi Amikura, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Amane Takahashi and Hirohiko Sakamoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:21
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  36. Ciliated foregut cysts are rare anomalies arising from remnants of aberrant embryological development. Around 100 reports on the presence of these congenital masses in the tracheobronchial tree, mediastinum, l...

    Authors: Osama S. Al Beteddini, Nasir K. Amra and Emad Sherkawi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:20
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  37. Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for biliary tract cancer (BTC); however, the recurrence rate remains high even after curative resection. There are limited data regarding the effectiveness of ...

    Authors: Mihoko Yamada, Tomoki Ebata, Gen Sugawara, Tsuyoshi Igami, Takashi Mizuno, Yuji Shingu and Masato Nagino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:19
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  38. A 67-year-old man was diagnosed with rectal cancer. The tumor invaded the subserosal layer, but it was not large, and there was no sign of obstruction. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy reduced the size of the tumor. ...

    Authors: Masahiko Sugiyama, Eiji Kusumoto, Mitsuhiko Ota, Yasue Kimura, Norifumi Tsutsumi, Eiji Oki, Yoshihisa Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Kusumoto, Koji Ikejiri and Yoshihiko Maehara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:18
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  40. In thoracic surgery, anatomic variations of pulmonary artery increase the risks for vessel injury and critical mistakes during pulmonary artery resection. We report a case of lung cancer with an extremely rare...

    Authors: Maiko Atari, Yuki Nakajima, Mitsuro Fukuhara, Yoshihito Iijima, Hiroyasu Kinoshita, Hirohiko Akiyama, Yoshihiro Minamiya and Hidetaka Uramoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:16
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  41. A 47-year-old Japanese male was submitted to pancreaticoduodenectomy for an ampullary cancer. Pathologically, the ampullary cancer was poorly cohesive adenocarcinoma without tubular structure. Moreover, locore...

    Authors: Hayato Yamauchi, Shinji Sakurai, Kei Hagiwara, Tomonori Yoshida, Yuichi Tabe, Takaharu Fukasawa, Shinsuke Kiriyama, Minoru Fukuchi, Hiroshi Naitoh and Hiroyuki Kuwano
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:15
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  42. Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare stromal neoplasm and usually occurs in the thoracic cavity. We here report a case of retroperitoneal SFT with prominent calcification. A 64-year-old man presented with an...

    Authors: Takehiro Maki, Syotaro Fujino, Kenjiro Misu, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Hitoshi Inomata, Makoto Omi, Masatoshi Tateno and Kazuyoshi Nihei
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:14
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  43. The Editorial Board of Surgical Case Reports expresses their appreciation to the following consultants for reviewing manuscripts during 2014–2015.

    Authors: Hideo Baba
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:13
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  44. Gallbladder carcinoma with peritoneal metastasis has a poor prognosis, with a median survival time of 4.8 months. We report the survival of a patient with gallbladder carcinoma with peritoneal metastasis for 7...

    Authors: Koichi Tomita, Kiminori Takano, Motohide Shimazu, Masaaki Okihara, Toru Sano, Naokazu Chiba and Shigeyuki Kawachi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:12
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  45. Spinal cord ischemia is a well-known potential complication of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), and it is usually manifested by paraplegia or paraparesis. We describe a case in which spinal cord ischemia a...

    Authors: Naritomo Nishioka, Yoshihiko Kurimoto, Ryushi Maruyama, Kosuke Ujihira, Yutaka Iba, Eiichiro Hatta, Akira Yamada and Katsuhiko Nakanishi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:11
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  46. Cavernous hemangioma is not a neoplasm, but rather a congenital venous malformation with the potential to develop in all parts of the body, though it is very rarely seen in the thymus. We report a case of cave...

    Authors: Naoko Ose, Yuko Kobori, Yukiyasu Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki Susaki, Seiji Taniguchi and Hajime Maeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:10
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  47. Foramen of Winslow hernia (FWH) is a rare and often overlooked diagnosis with a high mortality rate. Widespread availability of cross-sectional imaging allows early diagnosis and prompt management. In this set...

    Authors: Ronald Daher, Laura Montana, Jarrah Abdullah, Antonio d’Alessandro and Elie Chouillard
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:9
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  48. An 84-year-old woman was examined for an enlargement of an induration in the left breast. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt had been placed for postoperative normal pressure hydrocephalus of a cerebral hemorrhage, ...

    Authors: Mirei Kamei, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Homare Ichimura, Masao Chujo, Yoshiaki Takahashi and Kenji Sugio
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:8
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  49. A 28-day-old infant with d-transposition of the great arteries underwent arterial switch operation. The coronary pattern was Yacoub type A, in which coronary transfer is usually thought to be easy. However, a dom...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Matsuba, Yoshiya Shigehisa, Itsumi Imagama and Yutaka Imoto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:7
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  50. Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the pancreas is uncommon in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a case of AVM of the pancreatic head in a 59-year-old male. He was admitted to a hospital with hematemesis...

    Authors: Tsuyoshi Abe, Nobuyasu Suzuki, Junichirou Haga, Ayaka Azami, Yukitoshi Todate, Mitsuru Waragai, Atai Sato, Yoshinao Takano, Kenji Kawakura, Shigeki Imai, Hideo Sakuma and Yasushi Teranishi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2016 2:6
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