Perforator flap breast reconstruction is an accepted surgical option for breast cancer patients electing to restore their body image after mastectomy. Since the introduction of the deep inferior epigastric perforator flap, microsurgical techniques have evolved to support a 99 percent success rate for a variety of flaps with donor sites that include the abdomen, buttock, thigh, and trunk. Recent...

The kidneys are the dose-limiting organs for radiotherapy to upper abdominal cancers and during total body irradiation. The incidence of radiotherapy-associated kidney injury is likely underreported owing to its long latency and because the toxicity is often attributed to more common causes of kidney injury. The pathophysiology of radiation injury is poorly understood. Its presentation can be a...

primitive neuroectodermal tumor (pnet) is usually an aggressive, rapidly progressing and metastasizing tumor. occurrence of this type of tumor in the kidney is considered as unusual and few cases have been reported so far. we present a metastatic pnet arising probably from the kidney in a 17-year-old female patient with local invasion and metastasis to the stomach. pnet should be considered as ...

appendicitis is the most common abdominal disease that requires surgery in the emergency ward. it usually presents as right lower quadrant pain, but may rarely present as left upper quadrant (luq) pain due to congenital anatomical abnormalities of the intestine. we report a patient who complained of persistent luq abdominal pain and was finally diagnosed by computed tomography (ct) as congenita...

Acute abdominal aortic occlusion is an infrequent, vascular condition that requires emergency surgery. It should be managed promptly due to its fatal outcome.Thrombosis of abdominal aorta is usually insidious onset.Most cases of aortic thrombosis occur in fifth to sixth decades of life but the condition has been reported in patients as young as 29 years.1 In majority of cases thrombosis is seco...

BACKGROUND Preoperative radiotherapy of the pelvic abdomen presents with complications mostly affecting the small bowel. The aim of this study was to define the features of early radiation-induced injury on small bowel. METHODS 54 mice were divided into two groups (36 irradiated and 18 sham irradiated). Animals were placed on a special frame and (in the radiated group) the exteriorized segmen...