A 50-year-old woman was referred for treatment of an obstructing gallstone in the common hepatic duct, found on MRCP (A). An ERCP was performed, revealing a 2.5-cm stone obstructing the common hepatic duct (B), with no ...

Purpose The current standard therapy for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP). The role of consolidative radiation therapy ...

Evaluation of: Tufail A, Patel PJ, Egan C et al.; ABC Trial Investigators. Bevacizumab for neovascular age related macular degeneration (ABC trial): multicentre randomised double masked study. BMJ 340, c2459 (2010). The ...

Background To date the selection of the best candidates for liver transplantation (LT) owing to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been mainly based on tumor morphological characteristics (nodule diameter and number), ...

Aims: To track citation patterns in ophthalmic journals and contrast them with major medical and surgical journals from 1997 to 2009. In addition, we want to familiarize the ophthalmic community with bibliometrics ...

A 60-year-old man with myelofibrosis and extramedullary hematopoiesis was referred for evaluation of “swollen lacrimal glands.” Examination disclosed bilateral firm, immobile, nontender masses in the lacrimal sac fossa ...

Isolated fetal lateral neck cysts can represent a cystic hygroma or a developmental remnant cyst. In the absence of an increased nuchal translucency or associated malformations the risk of aneuploidy has been considered ...

Localized neurofibromas are rare in the orbit and, unlike plexiform neurofibromas, are not typically associated with von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis. To our knowledge, bilaterality of such localized neurofibromas has ...

The highest rate of complications characterizing the adult living donor liver transplantation (ALDLT) are due to biliary problems with a reported negative incidence of 22–64%. We performed 23 ALDLT grafting segments V–VIII ...