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  1. A leiomyosarcoma of the gastrointestinal tract is extremely rare. We report a case of jejunal leiomyosarcoma with intestinal intussusception at the angle of Treitz that was successfully treated with laparoscop...

    Authors: Kenichi Nakamura, Susumu Shibasaki, Seiji Yamada, Kazumitsu Suzuki, Akiko Serizawa, Shingo Akimoto, Masaya Nakauchi, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Kazuki Inaba, Ichiro Uyama and Koichi Suda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:180
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  2.  Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH), also known as Masson's tumor, is a benign, non-neoplastic vascular lesion that is characterized by reactive proliferation of papillary endothelial cells...

    Authors: Tomoyoshi Endo, Hidetoshi Katsuno, Kenji Kikuchi, Takayuki Ochi, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Kazumitsu Suzuki, Hironobu Yasuoka, Yuko Nakano, Mitsuru Nakagawa, Makoto Kuroda and Zenichi Morise
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:179
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  3. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is sometimes associated with complications involving herniation of intrathoracic organs, which further increase mortality rate. We encountered a case of postoperative gast...

    Authors: Noboru Oyachi, Fuminori Numano, Tamami Fukatsu, Atsushi Nemoto and Atsushi Naito
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:178
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  4. Mucinous cystic neoplasm of the liver (MCN-L) is a rare cystic tumor as defined by the 2010 World Health Organization classification. MCN-L usually does not communicate with or grow into the bile duct. Herein,...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Fukui, Akihiro Murata, Sadatoshi Shimizu, Kayo Sai, Takuma Okada, Tetsuzo Tashima, Shintaro Kodai, Akishige Kanazawa and Takahiro Okuno
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:177
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  5. Aortopulmonary mediastinal paragangliomas are rare. Complete resection of the tumor is desirable regardless of tumor size in view of the risk of sudden death induced by adjacent organ compression and poor prog...

    Authors: Kota Itagaki, Hirotsugu Notsuda, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Ryota Tanaka, Hiroki Kamada, Kei Omata, Yuta Tezuka, Hideki Ota, Yoshinori Okada and Yoshikatsu Saiki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:176
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  6. A hemothorax as the initial manifestation of bronchiectasis is extremely rare. We report a case of a sudden hemothorax due to exacerbation of clinically latent bronchiectasis under a direct oral anticoagulant.

    Authors: Hikaru Nakayama, Asuka Uebayashi, Shota Yagi, Shuhei Iizuka, Yoshiro Otsuki and Toru Nakamura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:175
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  7. Mediastinal foreign bodies might cause mediastinal organ injury or mediastinal abscess. The prompt removal surgery of mediastinal foreign bodies is needed to prevent those complications. We report a case in wh...

    Authors: Takashi Sakuma, Tatsuro Tamura, Mikio Nambara, Ken Gyobu, Mami Yoshii, Takahiro Toyokawa, Shigeru Lee, Hiroaki Tanaka, Kazuya Muguruma, Masakazu Yashiro, Masaichi Ohira and Kiyoshi Maeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:174
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  8. The spread of COVID-19 infection increased the number of patients who underwent pulmonary resection for lung cancer after COVID-19 infection. It is unclear how previous infection with COVID-19 affects perioper...

    Authors: Hiroaki Komatsu, Nobuhiro Izumi, Takuma Tsukioka, Hidetoshi Inoue, Ryuichi Ito, Satoshi Suzuki and Noritoshi Nishiyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:173
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  9. A 69-year-old woman presented with acute type A aortic dissection complicated by extensive hemorrhagic cerebral infarction due to brain malperfusion. Emergency decompressive craniectomy was initially performed...

    Authors: Masaki Kano, Akinari Iwahori and Hitoshi Ogino
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:172
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  10. It has been reported that hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with spindle cell tumor accounts for 1.8% of all HCCs, but spindle cell tumors that do not show an obvious conventional HCC are extremely rare. In this ...

    Authors: Tomohiko Ikehara, Tadaaki Shimizu, Shohei Hirano, Kentaro Fukushima, Jun-ichi Yoshizawa, Toshitsugu Nakamura and Ataru Nakayama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:171
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  11. Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) is a rare malignant mesenchymal tumor that usually occurs in children and is rarely diagnosed in adults.

    Authors: Tomonari Shimagaki, Keishi Sugimachi, Yohei Mano, Emi Onishi, Yuki Tanaka, Rie Sugimoto, Kenichi Taguchi, Masaru Morita and Yasushi Toh
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:170
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  12. Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly lethal malignancy, even if surgical resection is possible (median survival: < 30 months). The prognosis of borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BR-PC) is even worse. Ther...

    Authors: Mitsuru Kinoshita, Sota Watanabe, Gaku Mizojiri, Akitada Sada, Hiroki Kai, Yasunori Masuike, Yoshinobu Nagasawa, Kentaro Maruyama, Kyowon Lee, Mai Ohata, Osamu Ishikawa and Hiroshi Oka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:169
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  13. Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a rare yet costly disease with an incidence rate of 3 per million people. Herein, we report a rare case of eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGIDs) with SBS after strangula...

    Authors: Yuhki Arai, Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Takahashi, Toshiyuki Ohyama, Naoki Yokota, Yu Sugai, Shoichi Takano, Yu Hamasaki, Utako Kaneko and Satoshi Kanada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:168
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  14. Concurrent breast cancer and malignant lymphoma is a rare phenomenon. This report describes malignant lymphoma that was incidentally diagnosed from a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) during breast cancer surg...

    Authors: Emiko Hiraoka, Norio Masumoto, Takaoki Furukawa, Norimasa Kuraoka, Ichiro Nagamine, Aya Kido, Kazuhiro Sentani and Sunao Ootagaki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:167
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  15. Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare and slow-growing malignant vascular neoplasm composed of epithelioid endothelial cells within a distinctive myxohyaline stroma. It most commonly involves somati...

    Authors: Takayoshi Niwa, Takaaki Konishi, Asako Sasahara, Ayaka Sato, Arisa Morizono, Mayumi Harada, Kotoe Nishioka, Osamu Fukuoka, Naohiro Makise, Yuki Saito, Mizuo Ando, Takako Yoshimoto, Takeshi Shikama, Satoshi Yamashita, Masahiko Tanabe and Yasuyuki Seto
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:166
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  17. Fungal infection may develop because of immunosuppression after organ transplantation, in which invasive types, such as Aspergillus and Mucorales, fungi cause morbidity. We present a case of disseminated mucormyc...

    Authors: Atsuyoshi Mita, Shohei Hirano, Takeshi Uehara, Kai Uehara, Yasunari Ohno, Koji Kubota, Yuichi Masuda, Tsuyoshi Notake, Kazuki Yoshizawa, Akira Shimizu and Yuji Soejima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:164
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  18. Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome denotes a mechanical duodenal obstruction between the SMA and aorta. Total parenteral or enteral nutrition is the treatment of choice. However, surgical intervention i...

    Authors: Akiharu Kimura, Nobuhiro Morinaga, Wataru Wada, Kyoichi Ogata, Akiko Morishita, Takayuki Okuyama, Hiroyuki Kato, Makoto Sohda, Ken Shirabe and Hiroshi Saeki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:163
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  19. Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a germ cell tumor that is generally associated with good prognosis in children. It has been recently reported that vaginal YSTs can be cured using chemotherapy alone. Thus, minimal inva...

    Authors: Motohiro Kano, Ryoya Furugane, Keita Hogetsu, Yuji Yamada, Junnosuke Maniwa, Tamotsu Kobayashi, Naoki Hashizume, Teizaburo Mori, Eiichiro Watanabe, Masataka Takahashi, Akihiro Fujino, Yutaka Kanamori, Keita Terashima, Kimikazu Matsumoto and Akihiro Yoneda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:162
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  20. Although infantile hepatic hemangioma and hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma are relatively common in benign pediatric liver tumors, coexistence of the two tumors is rare. Placental mesenchymal dysplasia is also a ...

    Authors: Shunsuke Fujii, Kyoko Mochizuki, Hidehito Usui, Norihiko Kitagawa, Sayoko Umemoto, Mio Tanaka, Yukichi Tanaka, Masako Otani, Kumiko Nozawa, Kenji Kurosawa, Masayo Kagami and Masato Shinkai
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:161
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  21. Typically, in cases of adenomatous polyposis, colorectal cancer develops in the third or fourth decade of life. We report the case of a female patient with colorectal polyposis who developed adenocarcinoma at ...

    Authors: Masahiro Zenitani, Hidehito Inagaki, Hiroki Kurahashi and Takaharu Oue
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:160
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  22. The treatment of locally advanced colon cancer is challenging, particularly when there is invasion of the abdominal wall. In such cases, balancing the securing of margins and sufficiently repairing abdominal w...

    Authors: Tsukasa Aritake, Akira Ouchi, Koji Komori, Takashi Kinoshita, Yusuke Sato, Ryota Nakamura, Keisuke Takanari, Hiroya Taniguchi, Kei Muro, Seiichi Kato, Tetsuya Abe, Seiji Ito and Yasuhiro Shimizu
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:159
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  23. The median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a disease in which the celiac artery is compressed by the arcuate ligament and causes stenosis. If abdominal pain or an aneurysm is observed in the head of the pa...

    Authors: Sho Ueda, Masato Maeda, Kenta Nishitani, Tada Seiichiro, Keisuke Kawamorita, Tomoyasu Takayanagi, Toshiki Kobayashi, Yosuke Hashimoto and Kei Yonezawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:158
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  24. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is increasingly used to prevent chemotherapy-associated febrile neutropenia. Generally, aortitis is not considered a side effect of G-CSF and is thought to be extr...

    Authors: Nana Matsumoto, Naoto Kondo, Yumi Wanifuchi-Endo, Tomoko Asano, Tomoka Hisada, Yasuaki Uemoto, Akiko Kato, Mitsuo Terada, Natsumi Yamanaka, Ayaka Isogai, Muneyuki Takayama, Takeshi Hasegawa, Koichi Ito, Keiji Mashita and Tatsuya Toyama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:157
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  25. Esophageal atresia with or without a trachea–esophageal fistula occurs due to the failure of separation or incomplete development of the foregut. Therefore, esophageal atresia is often associated with various ...

    Authors: Terutaka Tanimoto, Takuo Noda, Reisuke Imaji and Hiroshi Nouso
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:156
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  26. Pegfilgrastim (PEG) is a sustained-duration pegylated form of filgrastim, a granulocyte-colony stimulating factor agent that is widely used as prophylaxis against febrile neutropenia during chemotherapy. We re...

    Authors: Yukiko Seto, Nobuyoshi Kittaka, Azusa Taniguchi, Haruka Kanaoka, Satomi Nakajima, Yuri Oyama, Hiroki Kusama, Noriyuki Watanabe, Saki Matsui, Minako Nishio, Fumie Fujisawa, Koji Takano, Hideyuki Arita and Takahiro Nakayama
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:155
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  28. Esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare tumors of the gastrointestinal interstitium, and comprise less than 0.7% of all GISTs. The presentation of esophageal GIST is relatively benign, comm...

    Authors: Shohei Ohki, Naoki Enomoto, Daiki Kato, Shusuke Yagi, Hitomi Wake, Kyoko Nohara, Hideki Miyazaki, Toru Igari, Norihiro Kokudo and Kazuhiko Yamada
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:153
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  29. Testicular torsion (TT) is common surgical emergency that requires early diagnosis and immediate intervention within 6 h since its onset to salvage the testis. However, the decision was made only by the surgeo...

    Authors: Yumi Shirasaki, Masumi Kawashima, Takuya Kimura, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Kousuke Hatta, Joel Branch and Yasuo Matsuda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:152
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  30. Primary cancer of the appendix, especially signet-ring cell carcinoma, is an uncommon disease, and it is rarely suspected before surgery. Diffuse intestinal ganglioneuromatosis that is not associated with neur...

    Authors: Ayami Sato, Yu Sato, Nobuyuki Hiruta, Takashi Oshiro, Yutaka Yoshida, Tasuku Urita, Tomoaki Kitahara, Kengo Kadoya, Taiki Nabekura, Yuki Moriyama and Shinichi Okazumi
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:151
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  31. Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare tumor of mesenchymal origin and accounts for < 2% of all soft tissue masses. Although SFT has been identified in multiple anatomic locations and can grow anywhere in the ...

    Authors: Shoei Kuroki, Takanori Ayabe, Toshihiro Gi, Yuichiro Sato, Hiroshi Nakada and Ryo Maeda
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:150
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  32. Acute aortic dissection type A is among the most lethal surgical emergencies. Patients may suffer from occlusion of the aorta or its branches causing end-organ malperfusion complicating the diagnosis and worse...

    Authors: Venny Lise Kvalheim, Maria Devold Soknes, Guttorm Lysvold Jenssen and Rune Haaverstad
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:149
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  33. Splenic artery aneurysms usually rupture into the free peritoneal space and rarely into the gastrointestinal tract. We report the case of a patient with a giant splenic artery aneurysm that ruptured in to the ...

    Authors: Chihiro Yoshikawa, Ichiro Yamato, Yasuyuki Nakata, Tadashi Nakagawa, Takashi Inoue, Mitsuhiro Nakatani, Daiki Nezu, Shunsuke Doi, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Kazuki Fujii, Shouhei Kishida, Midori Kamikubo and Saiho Ko
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:148
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:216

  34. A leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare tumor that mainly originates from the urinary tract and digestive system; however, non-visceral organ-derived patterns are rare. Herein, we report that a vessel-derived pleomor...

    Authors: Masaya Otabe, Tomoyuki Abe, Yusuke Sumi, Shuji Yonehara, Toshio Noriyuki and Masahiro Nakahara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:147
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  35. The prevalence and incidence of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are increasing worldwide. Primary mesenteric NETs are extremely rare. Solid tumors that arise in the mesentery are typically metastatic. We present ...

    Authors: Shigemi Morishita, Shinichi Yoshida, Yasufumi Kamatani, Shinya Suzuhigashi, Masaki Kitou and Takuma Nasu
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:146
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  36. General surgery for patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is infrequent, however, general surgeons also occasionally experience it. Only a few reports have described the specific perioperative managemen...

    Authors: Mariko Fukui, Kuniaki Seyama, Takeshi Matsunaga, Aritoshi Hattori, Kazuya Takamochi, Shiaki Oh, Izumi Kawagoe and Kenji Suzuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:145
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  37. Delayed onset of colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM) > 5 years after primary colorectal surgery is rare. Herein, we report a case of delayed-onset CRLM that occurred 10 years after primary surgery, for which la...

    Authors: Hidetoshi Shidahara, Tomoyuki Abe, Akihiko Oshita, Yusuke Sumi, Hiroshi Okuda, Manabu Kurayoshi, Shuji Yonehara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Hideki Ohdan, Toshio Noriyuki and Masahiro Nakahara
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:144
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  38. Although detachment of the implanted valve prosthesis was a well-known complication in patients with Behçet’s disease, complete detachment of an aortic bileaflet valve prosthesis has never been reported.

    Authors: Haruhiro Nagase, Takaya Hoashi, Ayumu Masuoka, Kentaro Hotoda, Koichi Toda, Akihiro Yoshitake and Takaaki Suzuki
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:143
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  40. Foreign body ingestion is a common case in daily medical care, and it usually passes through the entire gastrointestinal tract naturally and is excreted in the feces. However, long and sharp foreign bodies may...

    Authors: Masahiro Soga, Tetsuya Tanaka, Takeshi Ueda, Yuki Kirihataya, Yohei Yamaguchi, Yasushi Okura, Masayoshi Sawai and Atsushi Yoshimura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:141
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  41. Scoliosis is one of the symptoms manifested by patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS). Deformity of the thoracic cavity due to severe scoliosis may cause difficulty during cardiac surgery in terms of the surgical...

    Authors: Shun-Ichiro Sakamoto, Ryosuke Amitani, Yusuke Motoji, Takako Yamaguchi, Atsushi Hiromoto, Kenji Suzuki and Yosuke Ishii
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:140
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  42. Myxofibrosarcoma is a common soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities, which occurs very rarely in the thyroid gland.

    Authors: Maria Chara Stylianidi, Lena Haeberle, Matthias Schott, Yuriko Mori, Christina Antke, Frederick Lars Giesel, Gerald Antoch, Irene Esposito, Wolfram Trudo Knoefel and Andreas Krieg
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:139
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  43. There are multiple surgical procedures for resecting non-ampullary duodenal neoplasms (NADNs), and the appropriate method is selected depending on the tumor location and diagnosis. We herein report 3 cases of ...

    Authors: Shunsuke Ishida, Teijiro Hirashita, Yoko Kawano, Hiroki Orimoto, Shota Amano, Masahiro Kawamura, Atsuro Fujinaga, Takahide Kawasaki, Takashi Masuda, Yuichi Endo, Masayuki Ohta and Masafumi Inomata
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:138
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  44. Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) has been advocated for treating advanced liver tumors, but the devascularized ischemic area resulting from liver parenchymal ...

    Authors: Mai Ishihara, Yuki Takahashi, Kenichi Matsuo, Akihiro Nakamura, Shinji Togo and Kuniya Tanaka
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:137
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  45. While thrombosis is a well-known complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, reports on intestinal necrosis due to intestinal ischemia caused by thrombosis are extremely rare. We herein repo...

    Authors: Hirotsugu Morioka, Michitoshi Goto, Haruka Tanaka, Hirotaka Momose, Kazuyoshi Fujino, Toshiaki Hagiwara, Jun Aoki, Michihiro Orihata and Kotaro Kaneko
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:136
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  47. Gangrenous cholecystitis has a high risk of perforation and sepsis; therefore, cholecystectomy in the early stage of the disease is recommended. However, during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pa...

    Authors: Yurie Yoshida, Tomohiro Iguchi, Norifumi Iseda, Kosuke Hirose, Takuya Honboh, Noriko Iwasaki, Seiya Kato, Noriaki Sadanaga and Hiroshi Matsuura
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:134
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  49. Liver metastasis is the most common form of distant spread of colorectal cancer. Despite oncological and surgical advances, only about 25% of patients are eligible to undergo resection. As the liver has a limi...

    Authors: Hidenori Tomida, Tsuyhosi Notake, Akira Shimizu, Koji Kubota, Kentaro Umemura, Atsushi Kamachi, Takamune Goto, Shiori Yamazaki and Yuji Soejima
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:132
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  50. Extensive vaccination programs are being implemented worldwide for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). With the spread of vaccination, swelling of the lymph nodes after vaccination is frequently seen. We enco...

    Authors: Soichiro Sasa, Hiroaki Inoue, Tomohiro Inui, Naoki Miyamoto, Mariko Aoyama, Kazumasa Okumura, Hiroaki Toba, Takahiro Yoshida, Miki Tezuka, Chieko Hirose, Yasuyo Saijo, Hisanori Uehara, Ayumi Izumori, Masako Takahashi, Mitsunori Sasa and Hiromitsu Takizawa
    Citation: Surgical Case Reports 2022 8:131
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