Epiploic appendagitis is a rare cause of acute abdomen. Depending on the site of occurrence, it can mimic any cause of acute abdomen or disease of the colon and caecal appendix; making its preoperative diagnosis very difficult. We present here a case of a 7-year-old boy misdiagnosed preoperatively as acute appendicitis and later on, upon surgical exploration, found to have caecal appendagitis. ...

Mechanisms of acute abdomen in the elderly patient are not different from the ones of young adults. What differs is the large number of associated diseases and specific geriatric pathology, ischemic disorders, diverticular disease. The diagnosis of acute abdomen in the elderly patient is difficult due to unclear symptoms, laboratory samples less modified and low cooperation. The article analyze...

INTRODUCTION Acute surgical abdomen is one of the most common emergency surgical causes all over the world and also one of the most important abdominal pain causes which is sometimes intolerable for the patients referring to the emergency departments. Diagnosis and planning for operation in these cases is based on time-demanding serial examinations and results of paraclinical data. In this wait...

INTRODUCTION In female patients with neuropathic bladder, the urethra is closed permanently in order to avoid urine leak. Then Benchekroun hydraulic ileal valve is attached to urinary bladder, thus providing a continent stoma for performing intermittent catheterisations. CASE PRESENTATION We present a female patient with spina bifida who underwent Benchekroun continent vesicostomy in 1993. Th...

Variations in the origin of arteries in the abdomen are very common. With the invention of new operative techniques within the abdomen cavity, the anatomy of abdominal vessels has assumed a great deal of clinical importance. We report here a rare case of formation of an "arterial glomerulus" at the hilum of the right kidney by the branches of right renal artery. There were 2 renal veins; a supe...

This highly readable handbook of acute abdominal disorders will be useful to medical students and housestaff in both medical and surgical specialties. As Dr. Sreenivas mentions in his preface, the book is designed to provide medical practitioners with a "core knowledge" of the acute abdomen, "necessary for early recognition and proper management of patients." The author succeeds in achieving hi...

The so-called "burst abdomen" has been described for many years and is a well-known clinical condition, whereas the concept of the "open abdomen" is relatively new. In clinical practice, both nosological entities are characterized by a complex spectrum of symptoms apparently disconnected, which in many cases poses a great challenge for surgical repair. In order to assess the management of these...