Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of Primary Hyperparathyroidism and this endocrine tumor may be aggressive or indolent. This disease is an enigma and there are challenges in diagnosis, management and adjuvant treatment and the endocrine surgeon should have a high index of s...
Introduction: Superior Mesenteric Artery (SMA) syndrome also known as chronic duodenal ileus, Wilkie syndrome, arterio-mesenteric duodenal compression syndrome and cast syndrome is a rare cause of proximal bowel obstruction with an incidence that range between 0.013 and 0.3%. Cas...
Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair is one of the most common procedures performed in surgical practice worldwide. Intestinal obstruction is an extremely rare complication that can occur peri-operatively and needs to be dealt with extra caution. This article describes a case repor...
Background: Cystitis cystica, previously thought to be premalignant condition or associated with malignancy, is actually a benign condition. It may present with lower urinary tract symptoms, abdominal pain or haematuria. The exact aetiology is unknown. Cystitis cystica may cause...
Papillary melanocytoma is a pigmented tumor of the optic nerve, benign, rare, and often asymptomatic. We report the case of a 28-year-old man, who presents a unilateral papillary melanocytoma, discovered fortuitously, during an ophthalmological consultation for optical correction...
Chronic mesenteric ischaemia (CMI) has a wide variability of clinical presentation, often mimicking other more common causes of abdominal pain. Due to this, it remains underdiagnosed and requires a high clinical index of suspicion, making early accurate diagnosis challenging. Ti...
Abdi El Mostapha, Nedjim Abdelkerim Saleh, Hissein Hagguir, Al Afifi Mahmoud, Ait Mahanna Hamza, Dakir Mohamed, Debbagh Adil & Aboutaieb Rachid·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2021
Testicular torsion is a severe acute urological emergency caused by twisting of the spermatic cord. Unfortunately, its importance is still underestimated in everyday life. It requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Early-detected testicular torsion can be cured in almost every c...
Theebanraja Ramalingam, Maya Mazuwin Yahya, Siti Rahmah Bt Hashim Isa Merican, Wan Zainira Wan Zain & Zaidi Zakaria·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2020
During routine mastectomy dissection of an anterior chest wall mass, a unilateral appearance of the right sternalis muscle (SM) was observed. It originated from the sternal part of the right sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). The right SM muscle fibres travelled down inferior late...
Orbital metastases are a rare disease entity compared to choroidal metastases, and they are only rarely the first of a primary cancer. The primary tumor is often breast cancer, prostate cancer and then lung cancer. Orbital metastases generally induce an isolated exophthalmos, whi...
Introduction: Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease common in India. Usual locations of the cyst are the lungs and liver. The occurrence of the hydatid cyst in other locations is rare. Presentation: The presenting concern is a 10-year-old girl with a painless swelling in lower 1/3r...
Wharton’s duct remnant post-submandibulectomy is generally assumed functionless as the duct was ligated intraoperatively. There are well-documented surgical complications related to submandibular gland excision for non-neoplastic diseases, particularly sialadenitis, mucocele and...
Cancer arising from ectopic thyroid is extremely rare, with papillary thyroid carcinoma being the most common type. We report a case of 17-year-old girl who presented with right neck swelling with right supraclavicular swelling. Preoperatively, she was diagnosed with benign right...
Aims: To identify the presence of organism growth in bile culture to determine the need forprolonged antibiotic use. Case Description: We reported five cases of benign biliary obstruction due to common bile duct stone. All patients presented with abdominal pain in the right upper...
Although rare, atrial myxomas constitute the most common benign cardiac tumors. Atrial myxoma presents a fascinating problem because of its rarity, manifestations and curability. Symptoms may be related to the hemodynamic effects of obstruction, to embolic phenomena or to systemi...
Cavernous sinuses Hemangiomas (CSH) are rare benign extra-axial tumours, mainly affecting middle-aged women. Symptoms vary, but are usually due to a mass effect and include headaches, changes in vision and paralysis of the cranial nerves [1]. They account for 13% of all intracran...