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Chronic pancreatitis is a debilitating disease with complications such as pancreatobiliary ductal stricture, leakage or fistulae contributing to significant morbidity and mortality. Treatment aims to relieve symptoms of pancreatobiliary ductal...
Pancreatic calculi associated with chronic pancreatitis lead to severe abdominal pain, which significantly reduces the quality of life of patients. Pancreatic calculi, especially those that obstruct the main pancreatic duct...
Ceftriaxone is commonly used for the treatment of bacterial infection. But it may precipitate in bile causing biliary sludge, pseudolithiasis and gallstone especially in children. We report a case of...
Although pheochromocytoma usually presents as a solid tumor, it can also present as a cystic lesion in the adrenal glands. Cystic lesions in the adrenal glands, along with hypertension, need...
Pancreatic cancer was the 9th most common cancer in Korea in 2016, and the incidence is on the rise. Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, 5-year survival rate of...
A 51-year-old woman visited the emergency room with severe abdominal pain of acute onset. She had undergone a breast cancer operation one year previously and had been taking a half-dose...
A 57-year-old male with periampullary duodenal mass was diagnosed as grade 3 duodenal neuroendocrine carcinoma with multiple liver metastasis. After nine cycles of cisplatin and etoposide, abdominal computed tomography (CT)...