The cecal appendix mucocele is considered a cystic dilation of obstructive etiology that produces an accumulation mucoid substance. It may be benign or malignant origin. 50-year-old female, with no significant personal pathological history, presents repetitive clinical symptoms abdominal pain, similar to the process acute appendicitis, without systemic inflammatory response data, which improves...

In the present study, we examined the risk factors and causes for removal of the peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter in patients on continuous ambulatory PD (CAPD). Data were collected from the records of patients who received CAPD therapy from 1995 to 2007 in the Department of Nephrology, Saitama Medical University. During that time, 473 patients were introduced onto CAPD therapy and the PD cath...

encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (eps) is a rare, acquired condition that has been described interchangeablywith peritoneal encapsulation (pe) as well as abdominal cocoon. eps causes complications for peritoneal dialysis (pd) patients. in eps, the small intestine is covered by a fibrotic and inflammatory peritoneal capsule that either partially or completely encases the bowel. for eps, there ...

PURPOSE Peritoneal malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive neoplasm for which intensive therapy improves survival in a subset of patients. We hypothesized that pathologic variables would stratify patients into favorable and unfavorable survival subgroups. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Fifty-four patients with peritoneal malignant mesothelioma were evaluated for trimodal therapy from 1995 to 2003. Two p...

INTRODUCTION Primary malignant mixed mesodermal tumor (MMMt, also called malignant mixed Mullerian tumor and designated in the WHO classification of female genital tract neoplasms as carcinosarcoma) is an infrequent tumor that develops usually in the uterus and more rarely in the ovary. Extragenital tumor, including primary peritoneal MMMt, is an extremely rare and aggressive neoplasm with only...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Autofluorescence imaging (AFI) is mainly used to detect (pre)cancerous colorectal and pulmonal lesions. This is the first report establishing the feasibility of AFI in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). METHODS This is a prospective analysis of 10 patients undergoing conventional white-light laparoscopy (WL) and AFI for PC of different gastrointestinal tum...

We previously reported that peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis is a major cause of PD catheter removal. Another major cause is disease of the gastrointestinal tract, including neoplasm and perforation. In the present study, we reviewed the records of patients who underwent catheter removal at our hospital for reasons other than peritoneal infection--and for gastrointestinal disease...

BACKGROUND Mucinous cystadenomas of the liver are rare cystic neoplasms. The aim of this study was to assess management of a consecutive series of patients who underwent laparotomy for a suspected cystadenoma or cystadenocarcinoma. Secondly, the origin of ovarian stroma (OS) in mucinous liver cystadenomas was examined during early embryonic development. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed...

Low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) is a rare malignancy and found in less than 0.3% of appendectomy specimens. Patients with LAMN can present abdominal pain mimic clinically as appendicitis, intussusception or obstruction, hence high clinical suspicion needed for correct diagnosis management. The exact nature nomenclature these tumors when they disseminate into the peritoneum contro...