“Nip and Tuck”: Training the Next Generation of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons by Lok Ka Cheung, MBChB, MRCS, Vasilios Skepastianos, MUDR, MSc, Epameinodas Kostopoulos, MUDR, MSc, PhD, Georgios Skepastianos, MUDR, MSc, PhD

“…In the DIEP cases, the trainees’ focus was the preoperative marking of the abdomen; elevation of the abdominoplasty flap; rectus plication; and quilting of the abdominoplasty flap to the rectus sheath and umbiloplasty. …”
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A Case of Hepatic Malignant Solitary Fibrous Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Zhiyan Fu, Evita B. Henderson-Jackson, Barbara A. Centeno, Gregory Y. Lauwers, Mihaela Druta, Daniel A. Anaya, Yukihiro Nakanishi

“…Contrast-enhanced CT abdomen showed a large left hepatic lobe mass with early enhancement and delayed venous washout, concerning for hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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Gastric Duplication: A Rare Cause of Recurrent Vomiting by Brahmananda Koduri, Katie McHale, Christina Yost, Michael H. Goodman, Dennis Hoelzer

“…Persistent vomiting and paucity of air on the plain abdominal films provided a clue to the diagnosis. A CT scan of the abdomen with contrast revealed a uniformly thin walled fluid attenuation mass in the epigastric region which did not opacify with contrast. …”
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The Effectiveness of Vitamin C for Postoperative Pain Relief in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Randomized Double-blind Trial by Renu Bala, Ram Murti Saini, Shashi Kiran, Priyanka Bansal, Kirti Kshetrapal, Pulkita Kataria

“…Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is associated with postoperative pain in the upper and lower abdomen, back, and shoulder region which persist for 2–3 days. …”
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Gastroduodenal Emphysema with Portal Venous Air due to Congenital Duodenal Web in a Child: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Mihiri Chami Wettasinghe, Shanthini Rosairo, Samantha Kiriwattuduwa, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe

“…The abdominal ultrasound scan revealed air within the portal vein and in the wall of the stomach. Plain X-ray abdomen confirmed the presence of gas in the gastric wall and in the proximal duodenal wall. …”
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Male Pelvic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin by Lauren Chiec, Sadhna Verma, Ady Kendler, Nagla Abdel Karim

“…Computed tomography scan of his abdomen and pelvis demonstrated a large mass in his retroperitoneum. …”
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Pantoea agglomerans Bacteremia: Is It Dangerous? by Ikwinder Preet Kaur, Sindhura Inkollu, Amulya Prakash, Haresh Gandhi, Mohsin Sheraz Mughal, Doantrang Du

“…Chest X-ray and CT scan of abdomen and pelvis to rule out infection were negative. …”
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Complete Urogenital and Anorectal Duplication in a Dog by Jonathan M. Coffman, Marina McConkey, Gary Ellison, Elizabeth Huynh, Michael J. Dark

“…Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis, vaginocystourethrogram, and colonogram were performed. …”
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A Novel Cause of Biliary Peritonitis after Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: Case Report and Literature Review by Andrija Karačić, Paula Batur, Domagoj Štritof, Taro Fukui, Branko Bakula, Inka Kekez

“…A 65-year-old man presented with abdominal pain and distended abdomen after uneventful ERCP with sphincterotomy. …”
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Successful Treatment of Severe Type B Lactic Acidosis in a Patient with HIV/AIDS-Associated High-Grade NHL by Marco Mejia, Ariel Perez, Harold Watson, Daniel Sanchez, Jorge Parellada, Mario Madruga, S. J. Carlan

“…His lab values showed elevated anion gap with lactic acidosis and computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed a large soft-tissue mass arising from the left hepatic lobe. …”
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Chylous Ascites and Pleural Transudate: Rare Presentations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Old Age by Guan-Liang Chen, Deng-Ho Yang, Wen-Hsiu Hsu

“…Marked distention and an ovoid shape of the abdomen were observed. Shifting dullness and central tympanic sounds were found on percussion. …”
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Kidney Diseases Classification using Hybrid Transfer-Learning DenseNet201-Based and Random Forest Classifier by Abdalbasit Mohammed Qadir, Dana Faiq Abd

“…This study focuses on kidney stones, cysts, and tumors, the three most common types of renal illness, using a dataset of 12,446 CT urogram and whole abdomen images, aiming to move toward an AI-based kidney disease diagnosis system while contributing to the wider field of artificial intelligence research. …”
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Traumatic abdominal wall hernia with hemoperitoneum caused by blunt injury: laparoscopic exploration with mini-laparotomy repair. A case report by Euisung Jeong, Hyunseok Jang, Younggoun Jo, Yunchul Park, Naa Lee, Jungchul Kim

“…Follow-up computed tomography showed traumatic abdominal wall hernia with hemoperitoneum in the abdomen. We performed a laparoscopic exploration of the injury site and hernia lesion. …”
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Vejiga de porcelana como consecuencia de esquistosomiasis urinaria. Presentación de un caso clínico con enfoque multidisciplinario by Osmel Chávez Troya, Beatriz Molina Ramírez, Janairy Rosales Orihuela

“…Después de realizar algunos exámenes complementarios, se comprobó presencia de huevos de Shistosomas en muestra de orina y calcificación de la vejiga en forma de porcelana observada en radiografía simple de abdomen. Con el diagnóstico de Shistosomiasis urinaria, recibió tratamiento con praziquantel a 40 mg por kg. de peso en dosis única. …”
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E. coli Sepsis: Red Flag for Colon Carcinoma—A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Hiren G. Patel, Seme Tabassum, Sohail Shaikh

“…CT scan of the chest/abdomen/pelvis with contrast revealed no signs of colitis. …”
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Evaluation of the etiological spectrum of obstructive jaundice in patients attending the Al-Azhar Assiut University Hospital Endoscopy Unit in the last five years by Hamdy Mahfouz Moustafa, Ahmed Qasem Mohamed, Ali Sayed Zarea Nouh

“…We also found that patients who had hepatic focal lesions, abdominal lymphadenopathy, and/or dilated biliary channels without obvious stones or masses in the abdominal US needed to be re-evaluated with MSCT abdomen with contrast imaging (240 cases, 37.5%). …”
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Epidemiology of chronic and acute pancreatitis in India (EPICAP-India): protocol for a multicentre study by Sanjeev Kumar, Saransh Jain, Vineet Ahuja, Rakesh Kumar, Anand Krishnan, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Shalimar, Nitya Wadhwa, Ashish Agarwal, Deepak Gunjan, Sudipta Dhar Chowdhury, Anoop Saraya, Saurabh Kedia, Govind K Makharia, Pramod Kumar Garg, Ritvik Amarchand, Deepti Dabar, Rajib Sarkar, Gopal Krishna Dhali, Anmol Gupta, Shivendra Singh, Divya Pillai, Vineeta Baloni, Subhra Samujjwal Basu, Bikash Choudhury, Soumi Das, Pradeep Deshmukh, Krishnadas Devadas, Nitika Monga, Sumit Rungta, Brij Sharma, Chintha Sujatha

“…All hospitals in the district will be contacted to provide a line list of admissions due to acute abdomen including AP for 2 years. The spread of acute abdomen cases will be used to define the catchment area and estimate the denominator population. …”
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Abdominal Adiposity Distribution in Diabetic/Prediabetic and Nondiabetic Populations: A Meta-Analysis by Jane J. Lee, S. Natasha Beretvas, Jeanne H. Freeland-Graves

“…Excess fat in the abdomen can be classified generally as visceral and subcutaneous adiposity. …”
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Temporal Changes in Concentrations of Some Trace Elements in Muscle Tissue of Crayfish, Astacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823), from Keban Dam Lake by Onder Aksu, Ragip Adiguzel, Veysel Demir, Numan Yildirim, Durali Danabas, Sebahat Seker, Safak Seyhaneyildiz Can, Mustafa Ates

“…In this study, bioaccumulation and temporal trends of some trace elements (arsenic: As, cadmium: Cd, copper: Cu, mercury: Hg, lead: Pb, and zinc: Zn) in edible abdomen muscle of crayfish from Keban Dam Lake (Elazığ, Turkey) were investigated for the 2006–2012 period. …”
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Incidental left paraaortic mass in a patient with gall bladder adenocarcinoma: A diagnostic challenge by Manali Bhatta, Sharma Paudel, Ongden Yonjen Tamang, Prajwal Dahal, Santosh Shrestha, Sabina Parajuli

“…We report a case of 72-years male presenting with intermittent pain abdomen for the past 1 year. Preliminary imaging by ultrasound revealed a suspicious gall bladder polypoidal lesion along with choledochal cyst for which further characterization was done with both CT and MRI. …”
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