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A 42-year-old pre-menopausal woman complaining of lower abdominal pain was referred to our hospital. A barium enema showed rectal stenosis and colonoscopy revealed that the mucosa at the stenotic site was normal with no cancerous changes. Pelvic computed tomography demonstrated an adhesion between the rectum and uterus and a thickened rectal wall. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy under a diagnosis of rectal stenosis. The rectum was found to be surrounded by inflammatory fibrous tissue, which caused the stenosis. As no dissection plane was discernible between the rectum and uterus, low anterior resection of the rectum and hysterectomy were performed. Histological examination showed that endometrial-type glands extended circumferentially around the rectum and invaded the rectal submucosal layer and subsequently, endometriosis of the rectum was diagnosed.
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PMID:Endometriosis of the rectum causing bowel obstruction: a case report. 922 76

A 42-year-old man presented with acute right upper quadrant abdominal pain 2 years after open cholecystectomy. Evaluation revealed cholecystitis in a second gallbladder and a second cholecystectomy was performed. Acute right upper quadrant abdominal pain after cholecystectomy presents a wide differential diagnosis, including the often idiopathic and difficult to manage postcholecystectomy syndrome. Emergency physicians should be aware of the most common causes of pain in these patients. Previously unrecognized congenital abnormalities of the biliary system should be considered when the diagnosis is not clear, as highlighted by this case report.
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PMID:Duplicate gallbladder cholecystitis after open cholecystectomy. 1021 37

A 42-year-old woman with a history of 25-year oral contraceptive use presented with abdominal pain and was found to have two exophytic liver masses. She had no known prior liver diseases, and her serum liver enzyme and AFP levels were normal. One of the masses was a hepatocellular adenoma and the other was a pigmented hepatocellular carcinoma. The exophytic appearance of both lesions was unusual. This case, once more, demonstrated the risk of hepatocellular adenomas to undergo malignant transformation. The reason for the brown pigment deposition in the hepatocellular carcinoma was not clear. The prognosis was expected to be excellent following complete surgical resection.
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PMID:A 42-year-old woman with liver masses and long-term use of oral contraceptives. 1051 13

A 42-year-old man came to our emergency room hyperthermic (oral temperature, 42.4 degrees C), diaphoretic, and delirious. Other findings included labile blood pressure, sinus tachycardia (heart rate, 138/min), tachypnea (respiratory rate 34/min), muscle rigidity, and incontinence. Two days earlier, he had gone to a local clinic with complaints of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Promethazine was prescribed, and this was the patient's only medication on admission. Laboratory studies showed leukocytosis, hypernatremia, metabolic acidosis, elevated creatinine phosphokinase level, elevated transaminase levels, azotemia, hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia, and myoglobulinuria. The clinical and laboratory findings were characteristic of the neuroleptic malignant syndrome, with promethazine as the offending agent.
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PMID:Neuroleptic malignant syndrome due to promethazine. 1054 78

A 42-year-old patient with a sixth bariatric-related surgical procedure is presented. The steps taken for the management of her intractable nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, unacceptable weight loss and diarrhea are described, together with the rationale therefor. Bariatric reoperative surgical procedure and outcome are discussed, together with some alternative considerations.
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PMID:Sixth Time Bariatric-Related Surgery for Intractable Nausea, Vomiting, Abdominal Pain, Diarrhea and Weight Loss Failure. 1073 10

A 42-year-old man complained of lower abdominal pain. Computed tomographic scan and magnetic resonance imaging revealed an infected urachal cyst. A drainage catheter, which had multiple holes over a 10 cm length from the catheter tip, was placed in the urachal cyst. The catheter was inserted from the subumbilicus region and the catheter tip was intended to be situated at the caudal end of the urachal cyst. However, the catheter tip accidentally perforated the bladder and urine flowed out of the bladder through the catheter. Because the urine diluted and washed out the pus in the urachal cyst, the infected urachal cyst was successfully drained. Percutaneous drainage and antibiotics allowed resolution of the inflammatory process. On the twenty-third day after catheter placement, excision of the urachal cyst and partial cystectomy were performed with relative ease and without any complications.
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PMID:[A case of infected urachal cyst successfully drained by a catheter perforating the bladder]. 1152 36

A 42-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with fever, abdominal pain and miliary radiological pattern. The amylase and lipase in serum, and the amylase in urine were increased. The tuberculin skin test was negative. The thoracic and abdominal CT scan showed costal affectation, multiple focal hepatic lesions and large necrosing peripancreatic lymphadenopathies. The transbronchial biopsy and the pancreatic punction demonstrated granulomatous necrotic lesions, and M. tuberculosis grew in the bronchial washing culture. The specific treatment normalized the pulmonary, costal and pancreatic lesions.
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PMID:[Miliary, ganglionar, pancreatic and costal tuberculosis. Clinical presentation and literature review]. 1171 37

The development of enteral fistulas - internal and external - is common in Crohn's disease with a frequency of about 45 % in large series of patients. Most internal fistulas arise in the small bowel, but internal large bowel fistulas occur in about one fourth of all patients with fistulas in Crohn's disease. Colonic gastroduodenal fistulas do occur, but are very rare. Of the 35 cases of colonic-duodenal fistulas that we found in the literature, most have been described to involve either a previous ileocolostomy site or the ascending or transverse colon. There are only three cases displaying sigmoidoduodenal fistulas. To these we add a fourth case with this report. A 42-year-old woman presented with upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite and regurgitations with a foul smell as well as abdominal gas complaints. A duodenosigmoidal fistula was diagnosed by local application of contrast and the fistula tract was excised in typical fashion by resection of the colonic fistula and primary closure of the duodenum. The patient experienced a good recovery with relief of symptoms.
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PMID:[Duodenosigmoidal fistula in a patient with Crohn's disease]. 1172 96

Wandering spleen (WS) is a rare condition where the spleen, free from its ligaments, is allowed to move inside the abdomen predisposing the patient to life-threatening complications due to torsion of the vascular pedicle; splenic infarction, portal hypertension, bleeding and acute abdomen may occur. WS is rarely suspected at presentation since symptoms are usually not specific and definitive diagnosis is usually reached only by imaging technologies such as color flow ultrasonography and angio-spiral computer tomography. A 42-year-old woman was referred to our institute from the Emergency and Accident ward, complaining of a sudden onset of sharp abdominal pain together with nausea and vomiting. At examination a large, painful mass was present on the left middle-lower abdominal quadrant. A pelvic spleen was revealed at abdominal ultrasonography (US) and confirmed by abdominal CT. Emergency laparoscopy was carried out. The spleen was barely attached to the peritoneum of the anterior abdominal wall, covered by the greater omentum, the small bowel, and the transverse colon. Once mobilization of the spleen was concluded, the vascular pedicle appeared torted and thrombosed and laparoscopic splenectomy was performed. The patient was discharged on the 4th postoperative day with no complications. To date, only 5 cases of laparoscopic approach to WS have been reported. A review of the literature confirms that the reduction of postoperative stay, wound complications, and overall morbidity and a faster return to normal activity make laparoscopy the "gold standard" approach to the spleen as for treatment of many hematological disorders or more unusual splenic diseases.
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PMID:Emergency laparoscopic splenectomy for "wandering" (pelvic) spleen: case report and review of the literature on laparoscopic approach to splenic diseases. 1204 54

A 42-year-old woman with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) was admitted to our hospital on April 29, 1999, with complaints of abdominal pain. A diagnosis of intestinal obstruction was reached on the basis of clinical findings and X-ray evidence. A computed tomography scan of the abdomen showed massively enlarged kidneys, especially the right kidney, which seemed to compress the small intestine. The patient underwent percutaneous aspiration of the largest cysts on the surface of the right kidney. The symptoms, in this rare case of intestinal obstruction by an enlarged kidney in ADPKD, were alleviated the day after the aspiration procedure.
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PMID:Intestinal obstruction in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. 1213 69


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