Pancreas cancer has increased morbidity and mortality. It generally result in biliary obstruction which life threatening importance. Main biliary drainage method is endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. When endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is not successful, second preferred method is percutaneous biliary drainage. Percutaneous biliary drainage has some complications wh...

Abdominal and pelvic abscesses occur in approximately 10-30% of Crohn's disease patients during the course of the disease; most of these abscesses have an enteric communication. For this condition, percutaneous abscess drainage (PAD) rather than emergency surgery has recently been recognized as a valuable procedure for initial treatment. However, in cases wherein the abscess is accompanied by a...

A 63-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain without fever or diarrhea. Laboratory data were notable for elevated C-reactive protein of 12.8mg/dL (normal <1.0mg/dL). A colonoscopy carried out on the day after admission showed that the appendiceal orifice was inflamed and protruding (●" Fig.1). A computed tomography (CT) scan taken after colonoscopy demonstrated a 5×3cm pericecal abscess. T...

Bile leaks are an important cause of morbidity after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). This complication occurs in the early postoperative period and has an incidence of 15-40% [1]. These images (Figs. 1 and 2) are from a 57-yearold female who presented with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction and was found to have a massive biloma. She had undergone a LDLT for hepatitis C cirrhosis...

PURPOSE To evaluate the treatment of symptomatic pelvic lymphoceles (SPL) after performing radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) and pelvic lymphadenectomy (PLA) simultaneously. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed, in a retrospective study, 250 patients who underwent RRP with PLA simultaneously. Only patients with SPL were treated using different non- and invasive procedures such as percutaneou...

Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of percutaneous image-guided sclerotherapy with doxycycline as primary treatment of intraabdominal lymphatic malformations (LMs). Materials and Methods: Retrospective review was performed of all cases of abdominal, mesenteric, or retroperitoneal LMs referred to a single center that were subsequently treated with image-guided percutaneous sclerotherapy....