BACKGROUND Colostomy site carcinomas are rare with only eight cases reported in the world literature. Various etiological factors like adenoma-cancer sequence, bile acids, recurrent and persistent physical damage at the colostomy site by faecal matter due to associated stomal stenosis have been considered responsible. Two such cases are being reported and in both cases there was no evidence of ...

Correspondence loum 779 his loss of time and waste of hospital time could have been avoided. Also the expenses of the numerous tribunals would have been lessened. The second example concerns a man whose carcinoma of the colon I removed several years ago. About two years before death, I removed the prostate. About two months before death he was readmitted with urinary infection. Cystoscopy, afte...

BACKGROUND Perianal sepsis with ecthyma gangrenosum is a severe and potentially mutilating complication in immunocompromised children. Therapies include antimicrobial treatment, incision and drainage, generous tissue debridement, and skin transplantation. PROCEDURE We describe 3 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia having sepsis with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in febrile neutropenia and sev...

Improved understanding of the biological features and advances in diagnostic and surgical procedures have been the basis for increased applications of sphincter preserving operations in lower rectal tumors. The relevant treatment strategies along with their indications will be presented and analyzed. New operative procedures comprise transanal excision of early rectal cancer or trans-sphincteri...

INTRODUCTION The low incidence of colon injury due to blunt abdominal trauma and the lack of a definitive diagnostic method for the same can lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, subsequently resulting in high morbidity and mortality. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old woman with sigmoid colon injury was admitted to our emergency department after sustaining blunt abdominal trauma. Her physi...

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Identifying the alterations occurred in bacteriology of dermic layer abdominal wall patients who underwent a colostomy, through qualitative and quantitative determination pericolostomic colonization.