BACKGROUND Gallbladder perforation with gallstone spillage during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is usually an event with no consequences. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 66 year-old female admitted in our hospital with severe large abscess in the right lumbar region. Her medical history reveals a laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute gallstone cholecystitis. Emergent abscess incision and ...

Metastatic thymic carcinoma is an aggressive cancer that usually responds poorly to multimodal therapies. Although surgical resection is the preferred treatment for patients with advanced or metastatic disease, the clinical prognosis is typically poor. The present study describes a 63-year-old patient with thymic carcinoma who underwent a range of antitumor treatments, including surgical resect...

BACKGROUND Postoperative adhesion is one of the major complications of strabismus surgery and result in motility dysfunction that brings unpredictable surgical outcomes. However, there was no definitely accepted treatment method to prevent postoperative adhesion. METHODS A prospective, randomized, controlled experimental animal study was performed. Both eyes of each of 14 New Zealand White ra...

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Since ovarian cancer cells express CD44, which causes very strong cell adhesion to peritoneal mesothelium and an unfavourable prognosis, we designed small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting the CD44 gene to analyse the functional consequences of this inhibition in human ovarian cancer. We transfected ovarian cancer cell line SKOV-3 with well-designed CD44 siRNA or control siRNA. Western blot ana...

Primary malignant peritoneal mesothelioma with clear cell subtype is a rare malignancy few previously reported cases. We present 63-year-old female who presented abdominal distention and was diagnosed of the peritoneum an isolated metastasis to liver. The patient underwent surgical resection greater than 50 cm mass en-bloc partial liver gastric uneventful post-operative course. There are establ...

AIM Evaluation of the laparoscopic assisted revision of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt as an alternative technique to the traditional laparotomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Out of 1181 elective neurosurgical procedures have been done from January 2009 to December 2010. There are 98 (8.2%) ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures. New shunt insertion was performed 41 times (41.9%) a...

In spite of the approaches that have been proposed to reduce postoperative peritoneal adhesions, they remain a major clinical problem because of the associated intestinal obstruction, chronic pelvic pain, female infertility and difficulties at the time of reoperation. The pathogenesis of the process have been focused almost exclusively on the local events induced by the surgical trauma, and the...

BACKGROUND Prognostic factors in gastric cancer may alter with time after surgery. Ascertaining prognostic factors appropriate for each post-operative year should contribute to the establishment of better therapeutic strategies and ultimately to the improvement of their long-term results. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the present study, in order to elucidate whether prognostic factors would alter a...