Diagnostic predicaments in a case of Intestinal obstruction with strictures to distinguish intestinal Koch’s and Crohn’s disease

A Rare Case of Intestinal Obstruction due to Taenia Saginata

Intestinal obstruction may be duo to various mechanical or functional reasons. Worms, especially Ascaris worms are one of the mechanical reasons of intestinal obstruction. Obstruction due to Taenia saginata is a rare phenomenon. Here we report a case of intestinal obstruction due to Taenia saginata infection in a 30 year-old male patient undergoing laparatomy with the diagnosis of intestinal ob...

A Case of Intestinal Obstruction

very tympanitic. The right rectus abdominis was rigid, and the distension was steadily increasing. By 4 p.m. the patient's condition was very bad; he had an abdominal facies with every symptom of shock, a pale and anxious expression, shallow respiration, a cold clammy sweat on the face and forehead and persistent thirst. The pulse had become feeble in tension, but, it is io be noted, not increa...

A Case of Intestinal Obstruction

By M. UMAR, Officiating Civil Surgeon, Bijnor, U. P. Budha, Hindu male, aged 60, was admitted to hospital suffering from severe and diffused abdominal pain, with a drawn and pale facies, and a subnormal temperature. There was no passage of either faeces or flatus, and bilious? but not stercoraceous?vomiting was present. The abdomen was extremely distended; the pulse weak, rapid and thready. He ...

A Case of Intestinal Obstruction

A Case of Intestinal Obstruction

On the 22nd hiccough and vomiting commenced, and he was given small doses of tincture of iodine orally. On the 23rd the griping pains were very severe, but he had a fair amount of sleep for the next few nights. Meantime an enormous swelling appeared along the whole of the ascending colon and across the umbilicus to the left side, and t'he occasional enemas which the patient permitted brought aw...