The susceptibility of the undescended testis to malignant transformation is well documented. The most common location of the undescended testis is within the inguinal canal, with only a minority located within the abdominal cavity. When a testicular mass develops, the risk of torsion increases. We describe a large intra-abdominal testicular seminoma that had undergone torsion, rupture and haemo...

Background: A new diagnosis of Crohn disease during pregnancy is uncommon. Intra-abdominal abscess as an initial feature of Crohn disease during pregnancy is rare. Case: A 26-year-old healthy primigravida woman at 33 weeks of gestation presented with abdominal pain and an abdominal mass. Labor was induced at 37 weeks to expedite postpartum evaluation. On postpartum day 2 she developed septic sh...

BACKGROUND Intra-abdominal desmoid tumors are usually slow growing and solitary, but multifocal desmoid tumors develop on rare occasions. Diagnosing desmoid tumors before histological examination of a surgical biopsy is often difficult. In particular, if a patient has a prior history of malignancy, it may be difficult to differentiate between these lesions and disease recurrence or metastasis. ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the stomach presenting as an intra-abdominal abscess are extremely rare. We herein report a case that underwent successful laparoscopic resection of gastric GIST presenting with an intra-abdominal abscess. A 70-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of acute upper abdominal pain with a fever. Laboratory data showed an elevated white blood cell cou...

OBJECTIVE Acromegalic patients have increased lipolysis and decreased fat mass as well as reduced insulin sensitivity and glucose intolerance. During somatostatin analog therapy, these changes persist despite GH suppression, but they are now due to drug-induced suppression of insulin secretion. By contrast, during pegvisomant (PEG) therapy, GH no longer stimulates lipolysis due to the blockade ...

abdominal masses in neonatal period is one of the main causes of patients bed ridden in infantal surgery wards. the rapid encounterance with these patients has caused a decrease in mortality and morbidity. this study is a kind of historical research which has been conducted on data base management systems of two above mentioned hospitals between years 1361-1378. the final outcome was only 25 ca...

abstract fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis can be either mild and self limited or create severe organ damage, but may rarely lead to abdominal opancreatic pseudotumor. we report a case of fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis which clinically simulates transverse colon cancer.

An 11-year-old female Yorkshire terrier was presented to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center for evaluation of a palpable intra-abdominal mass and alopecia. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a large, complex, cavitary mass in the left caudal region of the abdomen. A fine needle aspirate of the mass was collected. A population of markedly pleomorphic, large, round to polygonal...

Primary malignant tumors of the diaphragm are rare, and primary liposarcoma of the diaphragm is extremely rare. The role of imaging is description of the anatomic relationships of the tumor as well as a suggestion of histologic diagnosis based on the presence of fatty and/or nonfatty components.