A Case of Pseudomyxoma Peritonei With a Synchronous Inguinal Hernia
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Abstract
Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare disease that most commonly results from the rupture of an appendiceal mucinous neoplasm. It is characterized by mucinous ascites that disseminates throughout the abdomen and pelvis, and at times to the inguinal canal, in which some patients may complain of inguinal hernia as the initial complaint. The incidence of PMP with concomitant inguinal hernia is reported to be 7.3-9.6% in the current literature. We report a 70-year-old Hispanic male who initially presented with signs of a right inguinal hernia, and on computed tomography (CT) scan, was subsequently found to have a large collection of right lower quadrant cysts extending into the right inguinal canal and hemiscrotum. Patient underwent exploratory laparotomy and was found to have a large right retroperitoneal mass with PMP with mucinous contents herniating through the right inguinal canal encased within peritoneal sac and had surgical debulking of peritoneal cavity and right hemiscrotum. The patient was discharged 9 days later. PMP that presents with an inguinal hernia is a special entity that warrants a discussion on the optimal management of inguinal involvement of a mucinous tumor. J Curr Surg. 2020;10(3):49-53 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jcs415
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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