Metastases to the adrenal glands are frequently found at autopsy. In practice, adrenal metastases have generally been accepted as evidence of blood-borne systemic disease. So, clinically curable adrenal metastases is a rare malady. The role for surgical resection in adrenal metastases has not been clearly defined. A 45-year-old man initially underwent total gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissec...

ried out in a local hospital revealed expansion both within and outside the liver bile duct but found no stone or neoplasm. Then, she was referred to our hospital where physical examination revealed epigastric tenderness while the liver, spleen, and superficial lymph nodes were not palpable. The patient’s main laboratory data showed no abnormality except for a slight elevation of tumor markers ...

results: among 11 patients who underwent surgery consisted of eight males and three females. their metastasis originated from testis tumors (n = 5), renal cell carcinoma (rcc; n = 4), bladder tumor (n = 1), and prostate cancer (n = 1). their mean age was 41.27 years (range, 21-67). the mean age of the patients with rcc and testis tumor at the time of diagnosing metastasis was 54 and 24.8 years,...

BACKGROUND The association between coeliac disease (CD) and neoplasms has been long established, but few data are available about the risk factors. The aim of this paper is to estimate the risk of developing a neoplasm among non diagnosed coeliac patients and to evaluate if this risk correlates with the age of patients at diagnosis of coeliac disease. METHODS The study population consists of ...

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma has drawn attention in the last twenty years due to its pathological and clinical characteristics. It is a question of B-cell neoplasm with extranodal origin, and with invariable prolonged localisation, indicating indolent malignancy. It is believed that this type of lymphoproliferative neoplasm is triggered by chronic antigenic stimulation. Thi...

poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus was admitted to hospital following 3 weeks of nausea and nocturnal vomiting, and weight loss of 4 kg. On physical examination, she had a soft abdomen and a palpable gallbladder. Abdominal radiography using water-soluble oral contrast medium (Figure 1) showed pooling in the pelvic region. Computed tomography performed immediately after radiography showe...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEPNETs) originate from the cells of the endocrine system. Their molecular genetic mechanism of development and progression is complex and remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to review the gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and to evaluate p53, Ki-67 and CD 117 expressions with their cli...

INTRODUCTION Duodenal obstructions caused by congenital anatomic abnormalities are rare in adults. Several patients in whom the duodenal obstruction was caused by a congenital duodenal diaphragm have been described. The duodenal obstruction in the patient presented herein was caused by a transverse septum, which has not been previously reported. A transverse septum is usually observed in the va...

Background Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) constitute the most common non epithelial neoplasm that occur within the gastrointestinal tract with a world wide annual incidence of 8-14/million. They are usually located in the upper gastrointestinal tract particularly in the stomach (60%), in the small bowel (30%), esophagus (5%) and rectum (5%). Gist(s) origin from sporadic mutations withi...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine proportions of upper third gastric cancer (UTG) among all gastric cancers and analyze clinicopathological features of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of 12,300 patients who underwent gastric surgery between 1986 and 2006 at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) were retrospectively reviewed. Clinicopathological features...