An Abdominal Mass

An enlarging abdominal mass.

An unusual abdominal mass.

Accepted 20 August 1997 A 78-year old woman presented with pain in her left lower abdomen for three days. She had also noticed an associated swelling in the same area, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation of her bowel. However, there was no nausea, vomiting, change in bowel habits, or rectal bleeding. She was otherwise fit and healthy, apart from mild hypertension for which she was taking ben...

An unexpected abdominal mass.

Pancytopaenia and an abdominal mass

A 35-year-old woman presented with a one-day history of stabbing, central chest pain radiating to her left upper abdomen and back. This followed two weeks of general malaise associated with cough, fevers, joint pain and night sweats. Her significant past medical history was of betathalassaemia minor with associated splenomegaly and five miscarriages. She was born in Jamaica as a sole-surviving ...

Right abdominal mass: keep an open mind

Amebic colitis is common in tropics, usually presenting with variable and non-specific symptoms. Amebomas occur rarely, usually in cecum and ascending colon, when they can masquerade as colon carcinoma. This report describes the case of a 27-year-old male who presented with right abdominal mass. Radiological examination prompted us to the differential diagnosis of ameboma and he was treated wit...