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Solitary pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer: case report and review of literature

Säo Paulo med. j; 137 (2), 2019
ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Pancreatic metastases from primary malignant tumors at other sites are rare, constituting about 2% of the neoplasms that affect the pancreas. Pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer is extremely rare and difficult to diagnose, because its clinical and radiological presentation is simi...

Impacto das complicações pós-transplante simultâneo pâncreas-rim sobre o custo da internação hospitalar

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 46 (1), 2019
RESUMO Objetivo: avaliar o impacto financeiro das complicações pós-operatórias no transplante simultâneo pâncreas-rim durante a internação hospitalar. Métodos: estudo retrospectivo dos dados da internação hospitalar dos pacientes submetidos consecutivamente ao transplante simultâneo pâncre...

Congenital hyperinsulinism in two siblings with ABCC8 mutation: same genotype, different phenotypes

SUMMARY Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is a heterogenous disease caused by insulin secretion regulatory defects, being ABCC8/KCNJ11 the most commonly affected genes. Therapeutic options include diazoxide, somatostatin analogues and surgery, which is curative in focal CHI. We report the case of two sibl...

A technical note on low cost rat laparoscopy an initial experience

Acta cir. bras; 33 (9), 2018
Abstract Purpose: To evaluate a novel and adapted low-cost set model for laparoscopic surgery in rats. Methods: Nine Wistar rats underwent two different laparoscopic procedures, splenectomy (n=3) and distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy (n = 6), after assembling a low-cost set replacing the conventio...

Factores asociados a reingreso hospitalario precoz posterior a resecciones hepáticas y pancreáticas

Rev. chil. cir; 70 (4), 2018
Resumen Objetivo: Determinar la frecuencia de reingreso hospitalario y sus factores asociados en pacientes sometidos a resecciones hepáticas o pancreáticas en nuestro centro. Metodología: Se revisaron registros de pacientes sometidos a resecciones hepáticas o pancreáticas entre 2012 y 2014. Se reg...

Locoregional recurrence of Frantz' tumor: a case report and review of the literature

SUMMARY Frantz' tumours or solid pseudopapillary tumours of the pancreas are rare neoplasms with low malignant potential. Young women in the second to third decades of life are more frequently affected. The treatment of choice is resection of the lesion, which is often curative. The recurrence is uncommo...

Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy with spleen preservation

ABCD (São Paulo, Impr.); 31 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Background: Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy has been the choice for resection of distal pancreas lesions due many advantages over open approach. Spleen preservation technique seems minimizes infectious complications in long-term outcome. Aim: To present the results of laparoscopic distal pa...

Intrapancreatic accessory spleen

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 15 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT An asymptomatic 79-year-old woman, with incidental finding on abdominal ultrasound of a solid nodule in the tail of the pancreas. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 12mm solid tumor. The suggested diagnosis was pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. The pathological examination showed an intrapancrea...

Hiperinsulinismo congénito del recién nacido: A propósito de un caso clínico

Rev. chil. pediatr; 88 (3), 2017
El hiperinsulinismo congénito (HC) es la causa más frecuente de hipoglicemia persistente del recién nacido (RN), y se caracteriza por secreción no regulada de insulina frente a hipoglicemia. El manejo inicial es médico, pero en caso de fracaso, la pancreatectomía parcial es el tratamiento quirúrgi...

Laparoscopic uncinatectomy: a more conservative approach to the uncinate process of the pancreas

ABCD (São Paulo, Impr.); 30 (2), 2017
ABSTRACT Background: The isolate resection of the uncinate process of the pancreas is a rarely described procedure but is an adequate surgery to treat benign and low grade malignancies of the uncinate process of the pancreas. Aim: To detail laparoscopic uncinatectomy technique and present the initial ...