Category Archives: Case Reports

Successful resection of a PNET tumor of the kidney with vena caval and cardiac invasion

Hong-Ru Chen BA, Sarah Fryberger MD, Jeffrey D. Lee MD, Linda L. Wong MD

This case report was published in the August, 2006 edition of Surgical Rounds. The patient is a 17 year old female who presented with progressive increase in abdominal girth and fatigue over a three month period. She also reported dyspnea and heart

A novel treatment of candidal cholecystitis using amphotericin B cholecystostomy irrigation

Shalini R. Anne MD, Peter L. Faries MD, and Gregg S. Landis MD

The authors report in the August, 2006 edition of Surgical Rounds the case of a 33 year old man who sustained multiple stab wounds to his abdomen with multiple injuries and gross spillage of enteric contents. The patient developed multiple sites of bacterial infection in his abdomen and from his central