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Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular tumor with variable biological and clinical behavior. There is increasing experience with liver transplantation (LiTx) for hepatic EHE, even in cases of extrahepatic disease localization. Until now, no cases of lung transplantation (LuTx) had been reported for pulmonary EHE. This report describes three cases of EHE with multifocal disease in patients who underwent either serial or combined LiTx and LuTx.
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Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid/surgery , Liver Transplantation , Lung Transplantation , Adult , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a relatively rare type of chronic pancreatitis that may be associated with other autoimmune disorders. The imaging features of this entity may be misleading and suggest the presence of a malignant tumour. We present a case in which MR imaging allowed us to diagnose autoimmune pancreatitis associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis, which is another autoimmune-related disease. Typical MR characteristics of autoimmune pancreatitis include focal or diffuse enlargement of the pancreas, the absence of parenchymal atrophy and significant dilation proximal to the site of stenosis, the absence of peripancreatic spread, the clear demarcation of the lesion and the presence of a peripancreatic rim.
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Autoimmune Diseases/diagnosis , Cholangitis, Sclerosing/complications , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Pancreatitis/diagnosis , Autoimmune Diseases/complications , Autoimmune Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Bile Duct Neoplasms/diagnosis , Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic , Cholangiocarcinoma/diagnosis , Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde , Cholangitis, Sclerosing/diagnostic imaging , Chronic Disease , Common Bile Duct/pathology , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pancreas/pathology , Pancreatic Ducts/pathology , Pancreatitis/complications , Pancreatitis/diagnostic imagingSubject(s)
Echinococcosis, Hepatic/diagnosis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Adult , Female , Humans , Liver/pathologyABSTRACT
A case of bacteremia caused by Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 3, biotype 4, is described in a 79-year-old man with an aortic bifurcation prosthesis. He died, in spite of antibiotics, from massive intraabdominal bleeding at the infected suture site. Yersinia, like Salmonella, seems to have a special affinity for damaged endovascular tissue, although more observations will be needed to support this hypothesis.
