The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Our medical research library holds 5 studies published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery (1953–2000). Each entry links to the study's record on PubMed and, where there is one, to the publisher's page and a free full text. 2 have an abstract, the authors' own summary as PubMed records it: open "Abstract" to read it. For 2 studies PubMed has no abstract for, we give the abstract printed in the article or, where there is none, a summary we wrote from it, each labeled as such.

About the journal

• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications (Australia) Pty Ltd
• Published: 1931–2000, Australia
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0004-8682 (print)
• Continued by: ANZ Journal of Surgery
• Its record in the NLM Catalog

2000s

• An unusual case of ascites: pitfalls in diagnosis of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. J.R. Clark, W.B. Ross. 2000;70(5):384-8. Case report PubMed · Publisher

  Summary

  The authors, from hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, described a case showing how hard it can be to confirm malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, and reviewed the literature. A 64-year-old man had a 10-month history of vague right upper abdominal pain, nausea and increasing abdominal girth. He was an ex-smoker and, 35 years earlier, had worked for 6 months for the Australian Asbestos Company packing asbestos cloth, rope and gaskets. Earlier tests elsewhere found exudative ascites with negative cytology, fatty liver and right lower lobe lung fibrosis on chest CT. A laparoscopy with peritoneal and liver biopsies showed no malignancy. Colonoscopy then found a large adenoma in the transverse colon, and colectomy was planned. Before surgery the ascites increased greatly. CT showed no mass, and cytology showed only reactive mesothelial cells. A second laparoscopy showed no lesions. At laparotomy, however, the omentum was nodular and 'caked' and there were peritoneal plaques. Histopathology, reviewed by two pathologists, and immunohistochemistry (strong epithelial membrane antigen staining, no significant LeuM1 or CEA staining) were consistent with epithelial mesothelioma. No resection was performed, and the patient was referred for palliative chemotherapy. The authors concluded that, with mesothelioma incidence rising in Australia, suspicion should be high in asbestos-exposed patients with non-specific abdominal symptoms and ascites. They added that laparoscopy with multiple biopsies is the investigation of choice, with laparotomy when laparoscopy is not diagnostic.

  PubMed has no abstract for this study, and the article doesn't print one. We wrote this summary from the full article with the help of AI. It is not the authors' wording.

1990s

• Localized fibrous tumour of the pleura: two case reviews. F. Pond, A. Wilson, P. McKelvie. 1997;67(11):821-4. Case report PubMed · Publisher

  Summary

  The authors described two patients with localized fibrous tumour of the pleura treated at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and reviewed the literature on this rare tumour. In case 1, a 41-year-old non-smoking housewife had 3 weeks of left-sided pleuritic chest pain. No history of asbestos exposure was obtained. A large left chest mass was first treated as unresolved pneumonia. A CT-guided needle biopsy suggested schwannoma. An initial thoracotomy at another hospital was abandoned because of very vascular adhesions. The tumour was later removed whole through a median sternotomy. It measured 20 x 12 x 9 cm, weighed 1.4 kg and had extensive central necrosis. Immunostaining (vimentin positive, S-100 negative) supported the final diagnosis, and there was no recurrence at 6 months. In case 2, a 55-year-old non-smoking man was referred for a painful wrist. A chest radiograph incidentally showed a right-sided mass. At thoracotomy, a 7.5 x 6 x 4 cm tumour hanging on a stalk from the visceral pleura was removed, with no recurrence after 6 years. In the discussion, the authors stated that diffuse mesothelioma is closely linked to asbestos, but asbestos plays no recognized role in causing the localized form, which is benign in 80-88% of cases. They concluded that complete resection is the treatment of choice and is curative for benign tumours, and that long-term follow-up with annual chest radiographs is advisable.

  PubMed has no abstract for this study, and the article doesn't print one. We wrote this summary from the full article with the help of AI. It is not the authors' wording.

1980s

• Multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma in a 29 year old male. P. Cregan, S. Wiley, C.H. Lee. 1987;57(4):271-3. Case report PubMed · Publisher

  Abstract

  A case of multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma in a 29 year old white male is reported. This is the second reported case of cystic peritoneal mesothelioma in a male and the first case of cystic mesothelioma reported in Australia. Clinical, histopathologic and ultrastructural findings are discussed together with a review of previous cases.

1970s

• Mesothelioma in an agricultural community of India: a clinicopathological study. P.B. Das, A.G. Fletcher, S.G. Deodhare. 1976;46(3):218-26. Case report PubMed · Publisher

  Abstract

  Mesothelioma is an uncommon neoplastic condition. Its association with asbestos exposure is well established, but it occurs even in non-industrial workers, and naturally there must be some other factors in its aetiology than asbestos exposure. In this report, five patients with primary mesothelioma, all belonging to a rural agricultural community with no chance of any asbestos exposure, have been documented. There was one common interesting observation, in that all five patients were associated with sugar-cane farming or an allied trade. Whether this observation is coincidental or has any aetiological bearing on mesothelioma needs further investigation. Its histopathological features, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment are discussed, with a brief review of the literature.

1950s

• An adenomatoid tumour of the epididymis. D.B. Duffy. 1953;23(2):107-9. PubMed · Publisher

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