An 82-year-old woman with a history of dyspepsia, early satiety and an intra-abdominal mass, known for many years and thought to be a cyst, presented with jaundice. Physical examination revealed a right upper abdominal mass and scleral icterus. Abdominal computed tomography found a well demarcated, 15-cm mass of the pancreatic head, enhanced during the arterial phase of contrast medium, causing...

% Asst. Surgn. Rai Sahib CHHAGAN NATH, Officiating Residency Surgeon, Mcwar, Udaipur. Cases of ovarian cysts, though not very comin this part of the country, are met with now an(1 again in hospital practice. The Patl<r" Usually presents herself with a considera c abdominal enlargement, as admission to a hospita ls ^nly sought when all sorts of quack remedies, P?tion for ascites, and even waitin...

Atrial septum aneurysm (ASA) is a saccular aneurysm of the interatrial septum, bulging into either atrium during the cardiac cycle. It is mostly congenital in natures and is often associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO). ASA is increasingly gaining attention as a possible cause of cryptogenic stroke. We here present a case of ASA in an elderly female in whom ASA possibly contributed to atria...

Department of Urology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan Department of Medical Research, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, ...

Fig. 2. Surgical exploration showed lobulating tumor originating in right atrial wall. White arrows indicate tumor and white arrow head indicates right atrial wall (A). Gross specimen of the intracardiac tumor was shiny and lobulating oval shaped with hemorrhagic component in it (B). Pathologic examination by light microscopy showed spindle cells and cavernous vascular spaces filled with red bl...

Primary mesenteric liposarcoma is extremely rare and is treated by aggressive surgical management i.e. wide excision with adequate margins (in the absence of distant metastases). We report a case of huge slow-growing primary mesenteric liposarcoma in a 52-year-old man, who presented with gross abdominal distension. He was anaemic with pre-operative imaging demonstrating a well-encapsulated huge...

A 33-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a slow-growing mass in the left side of her neck. The mass was found to be a huge (73 × 56 × 54 mm) carotid body paraganglioma. Another 21 mm-size tumor was incidentally detected at the right carotid bifurcation. She had hoarseness and Horner's syndrome of her left side. Both tumors were surgically removed. There were no cerebrovascular comp...

Left atrium dilates and hypertrophies in mitral stenosis cases. Occasionally left atrium reaches to extreme sizes. In giant left atrium cases, mitral stenosis may be the sole pathology or it may be accompanied by mitral insufficiency, or it may present as mixed mitral disease where mitral stenosis dominate. Transthoracic echocardiography is the easiest and cheapest method for the diagnosis and ...