Major injuries of the pancreas are uncommon, but may result in considerable morbidity and mortality because of the magnitude of associated vascular and duodenal injuries or underestimation of the extent of the pancreatic injury. Prognosis is influenced by the cause and complexity of the pancreatic injury, the amount of blood lost, duration of shock, speed of resuscitation and quality and nature...

Synthetic human pancreatic polypeptide stimulated pancreatic somatostatin secretion by isolated rat islets and by the isolated perfused rat pancreas. In contrast, synthetic bovine pancreatic polypeptide and the C-terminal hexapeptide had no effect on somatostatin secretion. Synthetic human pancreatic polypeptide had only a mild stimulatory effect on glucagon secretion at the highest concentrati...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the etiology, associated injurers and clinical presentation of post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study being conducted in the department of cardiovascular, thoracic surgery (cvts) and pediatric surgery, sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences (skims), srinagar, kashmir, india. all patients of pos...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic injury can pose a formidable challenge to the surgeon, and failure to manage it correctly may have devastating consequences for the patient. Management options for pancreatic trauma are reviewed and technical issues highlighted. METHOD The English-language literature on pancreatic trauma from 1970 to 2006 was reviewed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Most pancreatic injuries a...

Background: Isolated pancreatic metastases of other neoplasms are an uncommon pathology, particularly with a colo-rectal cancer origin. Surgery represents the single hope for a long-term survival in these patients, but most of the previously reported patients in the literature underwent standard pancreatic resections. A central pancreatectomy is a non-standardized pancreatic resection, which wa...

CONTEXT Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis is a common mimicker of pancreatic malignancy and a common presentation is abdominal pain. However, segmental portal hypertension is very uncommon. CASE REPORT A case of isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking focal pancreatitis and causing segmental portal hypertension is presented. CONCLUSION A histological or microbiological diagnosis of the pr...

background: the aim of this study is evaluation of the validity and reliability of the persian version of knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (koos) in patients with isolated meniscus injury. materials and methods: one hundred people with isolated meniscal injury (29 females and 71 males with a mean age ± standard deviation [sd] = 32.37 ± 9.97 years) and ?fty normal people with no knee...

Aberrant biliary anatomy is not uncommon. Isolated aberrant segment V duct extremely rare. We report a case of isolated injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

SUMMARY Malignant melanomas rarely develop isolated pancreatic metastases. We describe a unique patient who is still alive 22 years following an isolated pancreatic melanoma metastasis, and we review the sparse literature in the field.