THREE CASES OF ABDOMINAL GROWTHS PRESENTING VERY UNUSUAL CHARACTERS

Three Abdominal Cases Presenting Some Unusual Features 1Read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, May 9th, 1900.

Abdominal apoplexy: two unusual cases of hemoperitoneum.

Abdominal apoplexy, or idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage, is a rare and often fatal condition resulting from a variety of disease processes affecting the arterial and venous abdominal vasculature. Preoperative and intraoperative diagnosis and treatment of abdominal apoplexy are challenging. The source of bleeding may remain elusive even after careful autopsy dissection given the...

Unusual presentations of actinomycosis; anterior abdominal wall and appendix: report of three cases.

BACKGROUND Primary actinomycosis of the anterior abdominal wall and appendix are very rare clinical entities. An accurate diagnosis is generally obtained by histological examination, and treatment often requires surgical resection. CASE REPORT In this study we presented two cases of primary actinomycosis involving the anterior abdominal wall and a third one located in the appendix. CONCLUSI...

UNUSUAL AND RARE TERATOMAS OF THE HEAD AND NECK: A REPORT OF THREE CASES

Teratomas are bulky lesions that rarely occur in the head and neck regions.They are composed of tissues from all germ layers with varying degrees of differentiation. They arise from pluripotential stem cells and ectopic embryonic non-germ cells. The most common sites of occurrence in the head and neck are the cervical region and the nasopharynx. Three cases of these tumors are reported here...

Three Unusual Cases of Roundworm Infection