Acute gastric volvulus is a life threatening condition requiring early diagnosis and aggressive management. Diagnosis of gastric volvulus remains a challenge for clinicians due to variable, non-specific clinical presentation, which requires a high level of suspicion. It should be considered in patients presenting with chest pain and/or epigastric pain, especially in the elderly population. Endo...

Detorsion, cecopexy, cecostomy and tube cecostomy are the treatment options for acute cecal volvulus if there is no intestinal ischemia. Resection required if intestinal viability, necrosis, gangrene or perforation exists. After resection, primary anastomosis or ileostomy can be performed. First colonoscopic decompression testing may be appropriate in terms of saving time for elective surgery. ...

INTRODUCTION Gall bladder perforation (GBP) is a rare yet potentially fatal condition. e mortality rate of GBP is reported to be 12%-16% [1]. Acute Cholecystitis, calculous or acalculous, can lead to GBP in 6%12% of cases [2, 3]. In emergency setting cholelithiasis and its complications like biliary colic, acute cholecystitis are very frequently dealt by the surgeon and at times clinical prese...

The wide antibiotics use in different areas of medicine has significantly increased the incidence pseudomembranous colitis caused by Clostridium difficile. Strong necessity antibacterial therapy hematological patients is reason a higher frequency this complication after programmed chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. atypical course clostridial makes it difficult to diagnos...

purpose : to determine the efficacy of fibrin glue in corneal perforations up to 3 mm in diameter methods : a case series study was performed on corneal perforations up to 3 mm who were admitted at farabi hospital- tehran. age, visual acuity, presence and size of corneal thinning, corneal epithelial defect, size and depth of corneal infiltration, site and size of corneal perforation, corneal va...

Spontaneous perforation of the sigmoid colon or rectom is defined as a sudden perforation of the colon in the absence of diseases such as tumors, diverticulosis or external injury. It is a very rare finding, and if neglected, results in severe peritonitis and high mortality. The causes of this rare condition are numerous, and in this case it might be due to the chronic constipation induced by a...

coronary artery perforation is a rare, but potentially serious, complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and is associated with a high incidence of death, q-wave myocardial infarction, and emergency coronary bypass surgery. management is different but requires prompt recognition and treatment. we describe a case of coronary perforation only after guidewire removal and also review the ...

Histoplasmosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by H. capsulatum usually in immunocompromised individuals such as those with HIV-AIDS. Though oral manifestations are rare, they could be the only and initial manifestation of We report case 23-year-old female who presented ulcer palatal perforation detected to suffering from disseminated histoplasmosis. She also turned out HIV positive. Her ...

Introduction Ameloblastoma is an uncommon epithelial odontogenic neoplasm that is nonmineralized, locally aggressive and in most cases it is benign. Ameloblastoma accounts for approximately 10% of all tumors that originate in the maxilla and mandible. It often presents as a slow growing, painless swelling, causing expansion of the cortical bone, perforation of the lingual and/or buccal plates a...

Enteric fever is a systemic illness with varying presentation. It is an important infectious disease in developing countries and also in industrialized countries where many migrants reside. Enteric fever can result in complications in different organ systems and delay in identification and prompt treatment can be fatal. The important gastrointestinal complications of enteric fever include hepat...