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The conventional management of pancreatoenteric fistulas and pancreatic abscess with aggressive surgery or percutaneous drainage catheter placement are associated with increased surgery-related morbidity and mortality, and a longer hospitalization. We...
Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is defined as acute inflammation of the gallbladder in the absence of gallstones. AAC occurs in patients after major surgery and in the presence of serious...
The right-sided diaphragmatic rupture is often clinically occulted due to buffering effects of the liver and thus, erroneous diagnosis of such rupture may result in life-threatening conditions. A 44-year-old female...
The remnant cystic duct or gallbladder neck calculus may rarely result in post-cholecystectomy Mirizzi syndrome. Various managements have been proposed for the treatment of post-cholecystectomy Mirizzi syndrome. Some previous cases...
BACKGROUNDS/AIMS: Common bile duct (CBD) exploration has been a procedure necessary to remove stones which are not removable by endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST). T-tube was installed mainly in the concern of...
BACKGROUNDS/AIMS: It has been reported that functional hepatogenic differentiation has the possibility to occur in subcutaneous adipose tissue-derived stem cells. However, no studies have investigated whether the adipose tissue-driven stem...
BACKGROUNDS/AIMS: The fate of gallstones that remain in the peritoneal cavity due to perforation of the gallbladder during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been studied vigilantly since the early 1990s when...
BACKGROUNDS/AIMS: There is debate on the timing of cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis. Although there is a recent trend toward early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (eLC), that is, within 72 hours of symptom...