Fredrick Che, MD, Nojan Toomari, DO, Ninh Nguyen, MD. University of California Irvine Medical Center. 69 year old male with a history of esophageal adenocarcinoma status post laparoscopic and thoracoscopic Ivor Lewis esophagectomy, presented with abdominal pain and symptoms of bowel obstruction. Images performed showed a giant type 4 hiatal hernia with transverse and descending […]
Ryan M Juza, MD, Tung T Tran, MD, Eric M Pauli, MD. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Transabdominal tube drainage is a well described surgical technique for drainage of a blind-ending luminal structure particularly in the emergent setting. A potentially serious complication of transabdominal drainage includes dislodgement of the tube leading to free perforation and […]
Goutaro Katsuno, MD, PhD, Masaki Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Yoshifumi Lee, MD, PhD, Kunihiko Nagakari, MD, PhD, Masahiko Sugano, MD, PhD, Masaru Suda, MD, PhD, Yoshito Iida, MD, PhD, Seiichirou Yoshikawa, MD, PhD, Masakazu Ouchi, MD, PhD, Yoshitomo Itou, MD, PhD, Yoshinori Hirasaki, MD, PhD, Daisuke Azuma, MD, Shintaro Kohama, MD, Jun Nomoto, MD. Department of […]
Allison M Barrett, MD, David J Harrison, BA, Seth I Felder, MD, Edward H Phillips, MD, FACS, Miguel A Burch, MD, FACS. Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Superior mesenteric artery syndrome is rare, but has been reported in the bariatric surgery population in case reports. We describe a patient who developed SMA syndrome following rapid weight […]
Rosara Milstein, MS, Jennifer Schwartz, MD, Andrei Manilchuk, MD, David B Renton, MD. The Ohio State University. Since the Laparoscopic Revolution began in the early 1990s, we have continued to perform more complicated procedures using a laparoscopic approach. For several years now, advanced pancreatic procedures have been approached laparoscopically with a great deal of success. […]