Sarcoidosis-like disease with pulmonary infestation, meningoencephalitis and transverse myelitis after sigmoid cancer treatment.

We present the case of a 40-year-old male with recent history of moderately differentiated invasive adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid in whom both respiratory and neurological disease developed simultaneously, mimicking diffuse metastatic disease. The broad differential diagnosis and pitfalls (both diagnostic and therapeutic) are described. Pulmonary sarcoidosis as well as neurosarcoidosis occur very rarely after solid cancers.

Young female with pancreaticobiliary maljunction presenting with acute pancreatitis: a case report and review of the literature.

We report a case of pancreaticobiliary maljunction which presented with acute pancreatitis. Pancreaticobiliary maljunction and its complications are mostly observed in the Asian population. There are only few western publications concerning this subject. We reviewed the literature for current knowledge and opinions concerning the pathophysiology and optimal treatment, with special emphasis on the oncologic aspect of this condition. Those patients without a choledochal cyst should at least receive a prophylactic cholecystectomy. Firstly, to prevent further pancreatitis due to biliopancreatic reflux more or less promoted by gallbladder contraction, and secondly, more important, to prevent the occurrence of gallbladder cancer. Patients with choledochal cyst should receive a prophylactic cholecystectomy, and an excision of the extrahepatic bile duct, followed by hepaticojejunostomy.