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Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare disease of unknown etiology. It is characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the bowel wall to a variable depth and symptoms associated with gastrointestinal tract. Recently, the authors experienced a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis presenting as small bowel obstruction. A 51-year old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting. Physical examination revealed a distended abdomen with diffuse tenderness. Complete blood count showed mild leukocytosis without eosinophilia. Computed tomography confirmed a dilatation of the small intestine with ascites. An emergency laparotomy was performed for a diagnosis of peritonitis due to intestinal obstruction. Segmental resection of the ileum and end to end anastomosis were performed. Histologically, there was a dense infiltration of eosinophils throughout the entire thickness of ileal wall and eosinophilic enteritis was diagnosed. The patient recovered well, and was free from gastrointestinal symptoms at the time when we reported her disease.
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PMID:Eosinophilic gastroenteritis presenting as small bowel obstruction: a case report and review of the literature. 1746 85

Gastric volvulus is a rare disease with an unknown incidence. Unless it stays in the back of the diagnostician's mind, diagnosis of gastric volvulus, which can have significant morbidity and mortality associated with it, can be easily missed. Unstable vital signs and distressed appearance are not always present, as in textbook cases. The presence of a hiatal hernia with persistent vomiting despite initial antiemetic treatment should trigger one to think of gastric volvulus, despite the patient appearing very stable. With the advent of CT and laparoscopic surgery, the gold standards for diagnosing and treating this disease are ever evolving.
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PMID:Gastric volvulus. 1751 55

Boerhaave syndrome is a rare disease with a mortality rate that varies from 10 to 40%. The typical clinical presentation (vomiting, pain, subcutaneuous emphysema) is relatively infrequent. In the case of atypical clinical presentation CT scan with contrast medium administered per os is fundamental for diagnosis. Though there is no general consensus on therapeutic strategies, prognosis is dependent on time interval between onset and diagnosis. We observed four patients with Boerhaave syndrome with an atypical presentation. The time lapse between acute event and diagnosis was less than 6 hours in two cases, 24 hours in one case and 72 hours in the last. All patients presented abdominal pain at admission, preceeded by vomiting in two cases. In all cases diagnosis was carried out by CT scan. All patients were treated surgically: in one case raffia alone was performed, in two cases raffia was associated with temporal bipolar oesophageal exclusion, one case went through oesophageal resection with delayed reconstruction of digestive continuity. One patient with severe COBP died from post-surgical sepsis. One fistula after cervical recanalisation and another after raffia of the oesophageal lesion were successfully treated with endoscopy. We suggest that an aggressive surgical approach is the best treatment for this rare and often severe disease.
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PMID:[The Boerhaave syndrome. Personal experience]. 1772 95

Morgagni's Hernia is the direct herniation of the intra-abdominal organs through the anterior retrocostoxiphoid diaphragmatic defect. We are presenting a case of obstructed Morgagni's hernia in a five-year-old child. Who presented with colicky abdominal pain, distention of upper abdomen, vomiting with constipation of three days duration.. Morgagni hernia is a rare disease even rarer in pediatric age group, and is usually diagnosed incidentally; presentation of this disease with obstruction had been reported in adult but not in children.
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PMID:Obstructed Morgagni's hernia. 1817 47

Gallbladder congenital duplication is a rare disease difficultly diagnosed preoperatively. Eight days after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy a 72-year-old man, complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting, presented to our emergency department. Ultrasound and computer tomography (CT) scans demonstrated a gallbladder-like structure with a 12-mm diameter stone and a subhepatic fluid collection. During an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, a probably second gallbladder with a fistula of the posterior wall was filled with contrast. Laparoscopic exploration confirmed a missed gallbladder, which was successfully removed. Histologic diagnosis of cholecystolithiasis and chronic cholecystitis was made. The postoperative course was uneventful. Symptomatic double gallbladder should be considered also during the complicated postoperative course after the laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic reoperation is feasible.
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PMID:Perforation of missed double gallbladder after primary laparoscopic cholecystectomy: endoscopic and laparoscopic management. 1850 79

The idiopathic esophageal rupture, Boerhaave syndrome, is very rare disease. Early diagnosis and treatment will produce good clinical course. We experienced a case of Boerhaave syndrome with good clinical prognosis because of the prompt diagnosis and surgical repair by thoracotomy. A 58-year-old man complained sudden chest pain after vomiting. Esophageal rupture was diagnosed by chest computed tomography, and the operation was performed after 5 hours from the onset. The lesion of the esophageal rupture was on the left side of esophagus just above the diaphragm 3 cm in length, which was detected by the combination of thoracoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The postoperative clinical course was uneventful and he discharged from our hospital 17 days after the thoracotomy. Further development of imaging techniques and surgery, such as intraoperative endoscopy and thoracoscopy, are useful for the treatment and diagnosis of Boerhaave syndrome.
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PMID:[Idiopathic esophageal rupture (Boerhaave syndrome)]. 1861 5

This case report describes an unusual presentation of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, which was misdiagnosed as acute gastroenteritis in a 6-year-old girl. The patient later returned to the emergency department (ED) with severe dehydration from idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (DI). At her first visit, this previously healthy patient presented with mild dehydration, signs of acute gastroenteritis and normal urine output. Her brother had experienced similar symptoms a few days earlier. She tolerated an oral fluid challenge and was discharged from the ED with stable vital signs. Two days later, the patient returned with severe dehydration, resolving diarrhea and persistent vomiting. She was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit. Magnetic resonance imaging illustrated an absent posterior pituitary enhancing signal, which demonstrated a loss of function in that region. There were no other abnormalities. The patient subsequently received desmopressin with improving clinical status and was discharged on the eighth hospital day. DI is a rare disease, but can be fatal if left undiagnosed. It should, therefore, be considered in the differential diagnosis of a dehydrated patient with an unexpectedly low urine specific gravity.
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PMID:Central diabetes insipidus misdiagnosed as acute gastroenteritis in a pediatric patient. 1882 43

Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a rare disease with abnormal proliferation and infiltration of mast cells in the skin, bone marrow, and viscera including the mucosal surfaces of the digestive tract. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms occur in 14%-85% of patients with systemic mastocytosis. The GI symptoms may be as frequent as the better known pruritus, urticaria pigmentosa, and flushing. In fact most recent studies show that the GI symptoms are especially important clinically due to the severity and chronicity of the effects that they produce. GI symptoms may include abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and bloating. A case of predominantly GI systemic mastocytosis with unique endoscopic images and pathologic confirmation is herein presented, as well as a current review of the GI manifestations of this disease including endoscopic appearances. Issues such as treatment and prognosis will not be discussed for the purposes of this paper.
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PMID:Gastrointestinal manifestations of systemic mastocytosis. 1905 39

The adrenal cyst is a rare disease that represents approximately 5% of discovered adrenal lesions, which are usually discovered incidentally. True adrenal cysts originate to cells from mesothelium. The potential of cyst adrenal to become malignant has been reported to be 7% and a radical excision of a potentially malignant mass are indicate. We report a case of a 48 year old woman that presented with pain in left hypochondrium and epigastrium, nausea, vomiting, weight loss and microscopic hematuria. After the diagnosis suspicion surgery was performed with a monoblock resection of left kidney and left adrenal gland because of kidney cancer diagnosis as considered. The microscopically analysis of surgical specimen, diagnosed a true epithelial cyst of adrenal gland.
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PMID:True adrenal cyst mimicking renal cancer in a young woman: a case report. 1991 21

Boerhaave's syndrome is the rare and often fatal condition of spontaneous esophageal rupture. Meckler's triad of vomiting, pain and subcutaneous emphysema are characteristic features of Boerhaave's syndrome. When these symptoms are absent, diagnosis is frequently late and often occurs as the result of incidental investigation. This contributes to the observed high morbidity and mortality. Unless specifically considered in the differential diagnosis, this rare disease is frequently overlooked. The authors described the case of a patient in whom the diagnosis was made several days following presentation by observing that a large pleural effusion had evolved rapidly on chest radiographs. This uncommon radiological sign has relatively few causes and prompted a review of the history and diagnosis, followed by the initiation of additional investigations that confirmed Boerhaave's syndrome.
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PMID:Boerhaave's syndrome - rapidly evolving pleural effusion; a radiographic clue. 2093 23


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