BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Bowel lengthening may be beneficial for children with short bowel syndrome. However, current techniques require at least one intestinal anastomosis and place the mesenteric blood supply at risk. This study seeks to establish the technical principles of a new, simple, and potentially safer bowel lengthening procedure. METHODS Young pigs (n = 6) underwent interposition of a r...

Splenosis is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue, mostly found in patient with the history of splenic trauma or splenectomy. Intrahepatic splenosis is exceptionally rare. Thus, it is often clinically misdiagnosed as a malignant tumor. Herein, we present a case of intrahepatic splenosis which was clinically misdiagnosed as a hepatocellular carcinoma in a 50-year-old Chinese male. The patie...

BACKGROUND Phytobezoar may be a cause of bowel obstruction in patients with previous gastric surgery. Most bezoars are concretions of poorly digested food, which are usually formed initially in the stomach. Intestinal obstruction (esophageal and small bowel) caused by an occupational bezoar has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION A 70-year old male is presented suffering from esophageal and ...

systemic amyloidosis is a very rare complication of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the reported cases of secondary amyloidosis in children with ibd are much fewer than those reported in adults. herein, a teenage boy with crohn’s disease is presented who developed nephrotic syndrome due to renal involvement secondary to amyloidosis, whereas the patient was under treatment with corticosteroid ...

gastric bezoars are gastric masses, which rarely cause intestinal obstruction by passing through the small bowel. in this article, we report a 56 year-old man with no history of gastric surgery who presented with intestinal obstruction. the obstruction seemed to be in terminal ileum. colonoscopy was done and a movable mass was noted, which was extracted from the cecum by colonoscope resulting i...

Introduction: Treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is known to be associated with gastrointestinal stricture in both children and adults with malignancies. However, gastrointestinal stricture resulting from chemotherapy alone is a rare complication in paediatric malignancies. We experienced a rare case of jejunal stricture causing small bowel obstruction in a child with...

Colonic complications are rare after acute pancreatitis but are associated with a high mortality. Possible complications include mechanical obstruction, ischaemic necrosis, haemorrhage, and fistula. We report a case of large bowel obstruction in a 31-year-old postpartum female, secondary to severe gallstone pancreatitis. The patient required emergency laparotomy and segmental bowel resection, a...

Adhesive small bowel obstruction is a frequent cause of hospital admission. Water soluble contrast studies may have diagnostic and therapeutic value and avoid challenging demanding surgical operations, but if bowel ischemia is suspected, prompt surgical intervention is mandatory. A 58-year-old patient was operated for extensive adhesive small bowel obstruction after having had two previous lapa...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess the use colonoscopy over time in the assessment of large bowel obstruction in a tertiary university hospital. METHODS Retrospective analysis of surgical and colonoscopy records for the years 1990-2009 in a university hospital. All patients diagnosed with non-conservatively managed bowel obstruction were included. RESULTS We recorded 644 patients di...

ous abdominal diseases (1, 2), but its use for the evaluation of gastrointestinal disease has been slow to develop because of long acquisition times (resulting in increased motion artifacts, mostly from either respiration or peristalsis) and the unavailability of good MR contrast agents for the gastrointestinal tube (3, 4). As a result, only a small number of published studies have focused on t...