Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain that still requires emergency surgery. As a result of delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis, appendicitis perforation, abscess, generalized peritonitis and sepsis develop, and morbidity and mortality increase. Variations i...
Heterotopic pancreas (HP) or ectopic pancreas is the presence of pancreatic tissue in anomalous location without any anatomic, vascular or neural continuity with the main body of the pancreas. We present here a case of a female who had a chronic abdominal epigastric pain. She had...
Background: Radiotherapy takes an important role in the management of breast cancer. Therefore, radiation-induced skin ulcer caused by the acute or chronic effects of ionizing radiation might be another challenge. The treatment of chronic radiation-induced ulcers is further compl...
Introduction: Gastric perforation is one of the most common abdominal emergencies. That perforation can be caused by penetrating or blunt trauma. Injuries to the stomach are associated with the highest mortality of all hollow viscus injuries. Penetrating trauma leading to gastric...
Feeding jejunostomy is a surgical procedure in which a tube is inserted inside the lumen of the proximal part of jejunum to provide enteral nutrition to the patient. It is associated with few complications; small bowel intussusception is one of its rarest complications reported i...
Traditional primary sternal closure after cardiac surgery by steel wire cerclage is the standard technique for most centers worldwide. There is an increase usage of other methods, namely the zipfix (DePuy Synthes CMF, West Chester, Pa), as an alternative to standard wire cerclage...
Orbital infections and their complications are mainly managed by ophthalmologists. Nevertheless, there are few cases which are better co-managed with otorhinolaryngologist (ORL) counterparts. Such example included the orbital subperiosteal abscess in which certain area of the orb...
Aims: To report a rare case of angiosarcoma in young adult patient, the flow of diagnosis, and management of the case. Case Description: We reported a 36-year-old male came to the Surgical Oncology Division, Department of Surgery, Dr. Moewardi Hospital Surakarta with a lump in th...
Introduction: Obturator hernia (OH) is rare accounting for 0.05 – 0.4 % of all abdominal hernias. It is a diagnostic challenge because the signs and symptoms are non-specific. We report a case of OH which was diagnosed during laparoscopic left inguinal hernioplasty and is very ra...
Introduction: The pelvic abscess is a circumscribed collection of infected exudates. In young women, a pelvic abscess occurs as one of the complications of pelvic inflammatory disease. The incidence of pelvic abscess is less than 1 % in a patient undergoing obstetric and gynaeco...
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is an uncommon neoplasm of dermis involving head neck region. This tumour is slow growing and has very high potential for local recurrence with less risk of metastasis. It is a very rare neoplasm of the dermis layer of the skin [1] and is cl...
Introduction: Emphysematous Pyelonephritis (EPN) is a possibly life-threatening condition that is usually present as sepsis. Delay in identifying the disease may lead to detrimental outcomes, even mortality. The present study reports a case of incidental finding of an EPN in a pe...
Gallbladder carcinoma is a rare cancer often originally diagnosed as other benign gallbladder ailments. Early diagnosis is difficult due to lack of symptoms and half of all cases are only incidentally found during surgery. Unlike adenocarcinoma, the most common pathologic subtype...
A variety of hernias have been encountered for the past centuries. One rare type of hernia is Amyand’s hernia which was originally described by Claudius Amyand (1685-1740) in 1736, a surgeon in St. George’s Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom. It is a condition where the ve...
Acute urinary retention due to urethral hemangioma in women is a rare case. Common clinical findings of hemangiomas include lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), dysuria, hematuria, urethrorrhagia, and urethral mass. A 78-year-old woman with urinary retention due to thrombotic cav...