CASE OF ARTIFICIAL ANUS,

A Case of Imperforate Anus

A Case of Imperforate Anus

On the 23rd January, 1923, while I was in charge of the Local Fund Dispensary at Sorah, a female child aged 6 months, was brought to me with a history that the child had no anus at all from birth and that small quantities of liquid fsecal matter occasionally escaped from the vagina. Since the child was not in any way inconvenienced, the parents did not mind this abnormality. During the last for...

Case of Strangulated Inguinal Hernia, with Gangrene of the Gut: Recovery, with Artificial Anus

of great prostration and suftering. He was scarcely able to speak, but bis friends stated that the rupture came down 12 days before, and since then he had not been able to return it into the cavity of the abdomen. During all that time there had been no passage from his boweta, and up to within two days of his admission he had vomited severely. I was unable to ascertain whether the vomiting was ...

Extra-Peritoneal Closure of Artificial Anus and Fæcal Fistula

description of it may be acceptable. The aim of the operation is to perform enterorraphy without opening the general peritoneal cavity; and this is managed by detaching from the parietes all round the fistula or anus sufficient peritoneum to permit delivery of the gut through a parietal incision without separating it from its peritoneal adhesions. It is unnecessary to emphasise the importance o...

Preparation of Case of Imperforate Anus