Abdelillah El Bakouri, El Batloussi Yousra, Majd Abdessamad, Mounir Bouali, Fatimazahra Bensardi, Khalid El Hattabi & Abdelaziz Fadil·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2021
Spontaneous enterocutaneous fistulas are a rare complication, defined by an abnormal communication between the digestive tract and the skin surface giving rise to the exteriorization of digestive fluid through the newly formed fistula path. The diagnosis is easily raised. Spontan...
Kimura disease is an extremely rare idiopathic condition. It is a chronic inflammatory disorder typically seen in Asian males in younger age groups. Its classical features include painless lymphadenopathy or subcutaneous swelling usually in head and neck, eosinophilia and raised...
Penetrating chest wall injuries are life threatening necessitating prompt surgical management. Impaled foreign body in thorax requires major intervention and removal under direct vision. We report a 14 year old boy presenting to emergency department with impaled metallic foreign...
Zineb Abbad El Andaloussi, Ali Laanait, Hind Arbouni, Aicha Merzem, Hasna Belgadir, Nadia Moussali & Naima Elbenna·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2021
Aims: Show the value of MRI in the diagnosis of DNET. Presentation of Case: We report two cases of DNET, in two patients aged 17 and 14 years, with epilepsy resistant to medical treatment, with no neurological deficit on clinical examination. On MRI, the first case shows a tempor...
Owing to the lack of typical clinical features and imaging characteristics, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMT) of spleen can cause diagnostic dilemmas. Here, we report two such cases of splenic IMT. Our first patient was a lady who was detected to have an incidentally sple...
Despite an increased frequency of chest trauma encountered, manubriosternal joint (MSJ) disruption from blunt injury without associated spine or rib injuries are a rare occurrence and are often outside the focus of acute care surgeons. However, being a marker lesion for severe t...
Advanced Breast cancer mostly metastasizes to the bone, liver and lungs. Metastatic to the duodenum from the primary breast cancer is extremely rare and encountered only after occurrence of symptoms. Diagnosis is only confirmed by histopathology and Immunohistochemistry. However...
Neuroendocrine tumors represent 25% of primary lung neoplasms, of which only 2% are typical carcinoid. 75% of lung carcinoids originate from Kulchitsky cells in bronchus. Typical carcinoid tumors are well differentiated with low grade malignancy. Strong and diffuse positivity for...
Gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess (GFPLA) is uncommon and associated with high mortality if improperly treated. We experienced a case of GFPLA due to Klebsiella Pneumoniae in a 47-year-old man with newly diagnosed DM. Classical 'alveolar gas pattern' is easily identified via X-r...
Khalid Elhattabi, Mounir Bouali, Karim Yaqine, Nassima Fakhiri, Fatimazahra Bensardi, Abdelilah Elbakouri & Abdelaziz Fadil·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2021
Introduction: Transposition of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is a congenital anomaly of the great vessels. Left IVC is a rare malformation, it is observed in about 0.04% to 0.5% of the population. Presentation of Case: We report the case of a 64-year-old patient, with no particula...