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Animals ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group* ; Cricetinae ; Cricetulus* ; Female ; Humans* ; Ovary*

Small bowel malignancy consists 1~2% of overall gastrointestinal tract cancer and leiomyosarcomas of small intestine are 10~20% of small bowel malignancy. Small bowel leiomyosarcomas are rare in incidence and have no specific symptoms, signs or definite radiologic findings, so it is not easy to diagnose at early stage of disease. They are found occasionally by unknown origined gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, perforation and palpable mass, and diagnosed mostly by operation. Recently annual case reports are increasing trend in Korea. We experienced two cases of small bowel leiomyosarcomas which was diagnosed finally by pathologic findings, so we report them with literatural review.
Abdominal Pain ; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms ; Hemorrhage ; Incidence ; Intestinal Obstruction ; Intestine, Small* ; Korea ; Leiomyosarcoma*

Authors evaluated the accuracy of preoperative pelvic CT scan staging and its effects on management in 12 biopsy proved rectal cancer patients. Authors also studied postoperative CT in 5 patients to detect disease recurrence and metastasis. Preoperative CT staging was identical to surgical and/or pathological staging in 9 patients (75%), but it was underestimated in two cases and overestimated in one instance than in surgical stagings. In 7 cases, CT scan did not alter original choice of procedures. However, preoperative CT staging gave definitive informations to change management plans in 5 cases otherwise the treatment would be difficult and inadequate. Postoperative CT showed local recurrence in one and liver metastases in 2 cases. One of them was not detected at exploratory laparotomy.
Biopsy ; Humans ; Laparotomy ; Liver ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Rectal Neoplasms* ; Recurrence ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

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Humans*

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Female ; Granulosa Cell Tumor* ; Granulosa Cells* ; Ovary*

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Gamma Cameras* ; Head*

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Granuloma* ; Leprosy, Lepromatous*

Congenital chylothorax is a rare disorder and can be diagnosed by prenatal ultrasonography recently. Most cases of congenital chylothorax were characterized by different clinical courses of respiratory distress. We describe two female cases with congenital chylothorax observed by ultra- sonography prenatally. In the first case, left-sided pleural effusion was noted by prenatal ultrasonography taken at 34 weeks of gestation, and then pleural fluid was extracted by intrauterine thoracentesis under sonography guidance. After birth, this patient was managed by TPN(total parentral nutrition) and intermittent thoracentesis without surgical treatment. But, pleural fluid was accumulated recurrently and respiratory distress was aggravated. At 15th hospital day, shock state was developed and patient died. In the second case, bilateral pleural effusion and ascites were noted by prenatal ultrasonography, and then patient was delivered immediately without intrauterine thoracentesis. After birth, the second case received conservative therapy including mechanical ventilation, TPN, intermittent thoracentesis and paracentesis. The patient was discharged with complete regression of chylothorax. We report the two cases with brief review of related literatures.
Ascites ; Chylothorax* ; Female ; Humans ; Paracentesis ; Parturition ; Pleural Effusion ; Pregnancy ; Respiration, Artificial ; Shock ; Ultrasonography, Prenatal*

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Percutaneous biliary dilation was done in 3 patients with benign strictures. The first case was 50-year-oldmale who had multiple intrahepatic stones with biliary stricture. The second 46-year-old female and the third25-year-old male suffered from recurrent cholangitis with benign stricture of anastomotic site aftercholedochojejunostomy. In the first case, a 6mm diameter Grunzig dilatation balloon catheter was introducedthrough the T-tube tract. In the second case, the stricture was dilated with two balloons of 5mm and 8 mm in eachdiameter sequentially thorugh the U-loop tract formed by surgically made jejunostomy and percutaneous transhepaticpuncture. In the third case, the dilatation catheter was introduced through the percutaneous transhepatic tract.Dilatation was made with a pressure of 5 to 10 atmospheres for 1 to 3 minutes duration for 3 times. In all 3cases, the structures were successfully dilated and in second and third cases internal stent was left across thelesion for prevention of restenosis.
Atmosphere ; Catheters ; Cholangitis ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Dilatation ; Female ; Humans ; Jejunostomy ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Stents