HPB Surgery

Inflammatory oncotaxis in cholangiocarcinoma

Caroline M.A. Hutchison, Khalid Hameed, Abed Zaitoun and Srinivasan Madhusudan

Inflammatory oncotaxis is the term used to describe the phenomenon whereby mechanically injured tissues are predisposed to the development of metastases. Normal tissue injury elicits an inflammatory response, and it has been found that the microenvironment created is similar to that of the tumour microenvironment. Subsequently tumours have often been described as “wounds...

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(Vol 13 p 57-62, HPB Surgery; Oncology: 22 July 2013)

Spontaneous rupture of mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas

Atindriya Biswas and Satyajit Bhattacharya

Pancreatic cysts that develop after abdominal trauma are generally considered to be pseudocysts. We present a patient with a post-traumatic peri-pancreatic cyst that later ruptured suddenly, leading to an acute abdomen. Following an urgent laparotomy and excision of the cyst, post-operative histopathological assessment showed this to be a mucinous cystadenoma of the...

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(Vol 7 p 1-4, HPB surgery: 2 February 2007)

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Editor-in-Chief

Frank Cross

Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon

The London Clinic, UK

Editors

Neil Barnes

Consultant Physician

Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

Ali Jawad

Professor of Rheumatology

Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

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