Purpose: To date, there is not enough evidence concerning the optimal treatment strategy for early rectal carcinoids, we conducted a meta-analysis in order to determine the feasible local treatment for these selected patients. Methods: We searched the studies from the PubMed, Cochrane database, Medline, Ovid, SpringerLink, PMC and Embase between January 2007 and April 2017. Studies of local sur...

BACKGROUND Adenoma is the most common cause of duodenal polyps, while hamartomas are very rare. We present a patient with a preoperative histology proved diagnosis of isolated duodenal tubulovillous adenomatous polyp with high-grade dysplasia for whom we performed laparoscopic antrectomy. CASE REPORT The patient was a 56-year-old male with vague upper abdominal pain. Investigations revealed a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate hospitalization rates and duration of surgery associated with transnasal endoscopic marsupialization compared with sublabial excision in treating nasolabial cysts. DESIGN Retrospective clinical series. SETTING Large urban community hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive sample of 57 patients with nasolabial cysts treated from January 1, 2000, to February 29, 2008. INTERVEN...

diagnosis of ampullary tumors during screening en-doscopy or radiological imaging studies is increasing. Traditional management for ampullary tumors is surgical resec-tion. However, surgical intervention needs radical excision, including excision of the surrounding organs around the am-pulla of Vater. With the development of endoscopic techniques , endoscopic resection for ampullary tumors has ...

diagnosis When small oesophagogastric or duodenal nodules <2 cm in size are detected, endoscopic biopsy may be difficult, and laparoscopic/laparotomic excision may be the only way to get to a histological diagnosis. Many of these small nodules, if diagnosed as GIST, will be low risk, or entities whose clinical significance remains unclear. Therefore, the standard approach to these patients is e...

A 10-year-old boy presented with left-sided nasal obstruction and epistaxis. Endoscopic evaluation revealed a polypoid mass in the vestibule arising from the lateral wall of the nasal cavity anteroinferior to the left inferior turbinate. Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a soft tissue opacity in the vestibule of the left nasal cavity. After the endoscopic excision of the mass, postoperative ...