TOPIC: Cardiothoracic Surgery TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Spontaneous diaphragmatic herniation is a rare type of acquired hernia without any history trauma. (1) We describe case where non-traumatic liver through diaphragm was observed mimicking lower lobe lung mass. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old female prior thoraco-abdominal trauma seen in the clinic because gr...

AIM Ectopic liver tissue is a rare clinical entity; very few cases of extra peritoneal localization have been described in Literature. MATERIAL OF STUDY A 54 years old male patient was admitted to our Institution because of thoraco - abdominal pain (lower left chest, left hypochondrium), and fever; CEA and CA 19-9 were in range, but alpha fetoprotein levels were high (880 IU / L); CT scan and...

[Original]Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary neoplasm of liver, which arises from parenchymal cells liver.1 Hepatocellular usually develops in setting chronic background liver disease, such as cirrhosis or hepatitis B C infection. The diagnosis HCC relies heavily on diagnostic imaging, and high sensitivity specificity Liver Imaging Reporting Data System (LI-RADS) classifi...

BACKGROUND Bone fractures are common in alcoholics. AIMS To analyse which factors (ethanol consumption; liver function impairment; bone densitometry; hormone changes; nutritional status, and disrupted social links and altered eating habits) are related to bone fractures in 90 alcoholic men admitted to our hospitalization unit because of organic problems. METHODS Bone homoeostasis-related ho...

the deadly schwannomas, as uncommon subtype of soft tissue tumors originate from peripheral nerve sheaths. retro peritoneum is an uncommon site for these tumors. here we present the clinical feature and therapeutic implication of a 38-year-old man affected by recurrent retroperitoneal schwannoma who admitted to emergency ward following abdominal pain. computed tomorgraphic scan showed a solid w...

This manuscript reports a case of a patient with Alagille syndrome who developed a rapidly growing lesion in the caudate segment of his cirrhotic liver. This mass was closely monitored but did not seem malignant from a radiological point of view. An MRI showed no criteria in favour of a hepatocarcinoma, however, the rapid growth lead to a biopsy of both the lesion and the cirrhotic liver. The p...