INTUSSUSCEPTION TREATED BY LAPAROTOMY.

A Case of Intussusception: Laparotomy

E.H.,European, 29 years of age, occupation nil, was admitted into the General Hospital about midnight on the 20th April 1894, complaining of great pain in the abdomen, vomiting, and much prostration; and he stated that he had had no movement of the bowels for three days. Previous history.?The only points worth noting here are, that he had been subject to epileptic fits from childhood, and that ...

Cases of Sprue Treated by Laparotomy

were operated on clinical diagnosis and findings. As the cases were typical, no stool or blood examination was done These cases were not improving on the orthodox treatment of diet, vitamins, iron, and liver injections. The effect was dramatic. The loose motions stopped suddenly. The patients did not have any motions for three to four days without any discomfort. The bowels were moved by a smal...

Case of Intestinal Obstruction Successfully Treated by Laparotomy

on Intestinal Obstruction in this Society, I reported five cases of laparotomy for intestinal obstruction, which were published in the November number of the Edinburgh Medical Journal. Since reporting these cases, all of which proved fatal, I have successfully operated on one patient, whose case I now beg to lay before you. The case has been written out for me by Dr Alex. Miles, who was my hous...

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome complicated with intussusception: enteroscopic polyps resections through laparotomy.

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by intestinal hamartomatous polyps in association with mucocutaneous pigmentations. Here we present a case of a 30-year-old woman who was hospitalized and underwent diagnostic procedures because of crampy abdominal pain. Physical examination on admission revealed pigmented spots around lips and on the oral mucosa. ...

Adult Ileo-Ileal Intussusception Caused by Intestinal Lipoma