A COLOTOMY CLAMP.

Complete Absence of Rectum. Colotomy

S-, a male child, four clays' old, was brought from a village to the Colvin Hospital, Allahabad, at about 6 o'clock on the evening of the 31st March, 1884. The hospital dhai came to me and reported that a baby had arrived in whom the natural passage of defecation was absent. I immediately went over to the hospital and saw it. The face was pinched ; the baby could cry only faintly, the breathing...

A Method of Performing Inguinal Colotomy, with Cases.

improbable that the abdominal wall could be made strong enough to resist the pressure of the prolapsed intestines, therefore, in them obliteration of the hernial sac and suture of the abdominal wall should be followed by the wearing of a truss. In conclusion I ought, perlhaps, to refer to the operations of radical cure which may be performed after ketotomy. But so much has been written and said...

Laparoscopic Colotomy Repair Following Colonoscopic Polypectomy

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The unfortunate complication of a colotomy resulting from a colonoscopic polypectomy can be disastrous. Using the versatility of laparoscopic surgery, we aim to provide a treatment algorithm for these colonoscopic perforations. METHODS We report a case of cecal perforation, in a 70 year old female, following colonoscopic polypectomy that was treated successfully with...

How a DNA polymerase clamp loader opens a sliding clamp.

Processive chromosomal replication relies on sliding DNA clamps, which are loaded onto DNA by pentameric clamp loader complexes belonging to the AAA+ family of adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases). We present structures for the ATP-bound state of the clamp loader complex from bacteriophage T4, bound to an open clamp and primer-template DNA. The clamp loader traps a spiral conformation of the ope...

A New Eyelid Clamp