ACUTE ABDOMEN DUE TO MALIGNANT TUMOR

Malignant pleural mesothelioma presenting as an acute surgical abdomen due to metastatic jejunal perforation.

A 52-year-old man was admitted to our hospital in June 2008 presenting abnormal tumor lesions along the left pleura on chest X-ray. The needle-biopsied specimen of the left pleura proved the biphasic type of malignant mesothelioma. However, he complained of acute abdominal pain 7 days after the diagnosis. Chest X-ray revealed free air below the right diaphragm. Emergency surgery revealed a 4-cm...

Acute abdomen due to primary omentitis: a case report

BACKGROUND Idiopathic segmental infarction of the greater omentum (ISIGO) is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in children and adults and its etiology is rather vague and speculative. The clinical presentation is usually with atypical acute or subacute abdominal pain. In a number of cases radiologic imaging allows proper preoperative diagnosis and treatment. CASE PRESENTATION We report a cas...

Acute Abdomen Due to Cecal Volvulus Associated With Chilaiditi Syndrome

1Corporación Comfenalco-Universidad Libre, Servicio de Hospitalización Geriátrica Programa Siéntete Como en Casa, Cali, Colombia 2Departamento de Medicina Familiar, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 4Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Texas Med...

Acute abdomen in rheumatoid arthritis due to necrotizing arteritis.

Small Bowel Perforation due to Gossypiboma Caused Acute Abdomen

Gossypiboma, an infrequent surgical complication, is a mass lesion due to a retained surgical sponge surrounded by foreign body reaction. In this case report, we describe gossypiboma in the abdominal cavity which was detected 14 months after the hysterectomy due to acute abdominal pain. Gossypiboma was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT). The CT findings were a rounded mass with a dense centr...