introduction: detection of malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity indicates the extension of cancer cells. the aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence rate of positive cytology in colorectal cancer and its relationship with the local progress of the tumor.  methods: in a 2-year prospective study in mashhad and iran universities of medical sciences, peritoneal lavage was performed on 40...

Background: Peritoneal Tuberculosis is an abdominal form of that affects the peritoneal cavity and enclosed organs. Clinical presentation this rare extrapulmonary tuberculosis resembles advanced ovarian cancer may results in unnecessary extensive surgery especially resource limited setting. Case presentation: A case a 36 years old prisoner who presented to us with gradual onset distension for o...

The clinical features in patients with acute Q fever are variable. We present a patient with fever, abdominal distension, pericardial effusion, and diffuse gallium uptake in the abdominal cavity, mimicking peritonitis or peritoneum carcinomatosis. Serologic surveys revealed acute infection by Coxiella burnetii. The patient responded poorly to doxycycline and improved with oral levofloxacin. Dur...

A 55-year-old man, who had a medical history of diabetic nephropathy resulting in end-stage renal failure, was receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) as renal replacement. He underwent bilateral open inguinal hernioplasty 3 years earlier. He presented with a sudden onset of right scrotal oedema after CAPD. Physical examination showed a non-tender swelling over the right groi...

Splenic cysts are uncommon, with large cysts and complications being rare. We describe a 6-year-old patient who initially presented 1 day after falling onto her abdomen at the playground with worsening abdominal pain and distention. An ultrasound of the abdomen demonstrated free abdominal fluid in all four quadrants. A subsequent contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pel...

kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) for EGFR-mutated elderly non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients has been reported (1,2). It is supposed that EGFR-TKIs are increasingly prescribed for them. In NSCLC patients, metastases to meningeal as well as peritoneal space are rare (3,4). However, carcinomatous meningitis, which attracts attention as a recurrence site of the patients who received EGFR-TKI...

A 35-year-old man with a history of blunt abdominal trauma and splenic rupture was diagnosed with an ampullary adenocarcinoma. At workup, a CT scan showed multiple intra-abdominal lesions similar to peritoneal carcinosis, and the patient was referred for palliative chemotherapy. On clinical suspicion, however, a biopsy was performed on an intra-abdominal lesion, establishing the diagnosis of ab...

To cite: Cavalli Z, Ader F, Chidiac C, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015212342 DESCRIPTION A 54-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of weight loss, fever, sweats, swelling and abdominal pain. He had diabetes mellitus, alcoholism with hepatic fibrosis and epilepsy. He came from Cambodia but had no history of tuberculosis (TB) vac...

Sliding super point is a special host de€ned under sliding time window with which there are huge other hosts contact. It plays important roles in network security and management. But how to detect them in real time from nowadays high-speed network which contains several distributed routers is a hard task. Distributed sliding super point detection requires an algorithm that can estimate the numb...

137 K .M. was a 69-year-old woman who presented to her primary physician with bloating, abdominal cramping, and constipation over the previous weeks. She also noted some fullness in her right groin. She underwent an abdominal ultrasound, which revealed an adnexal mass on the right side of her abdomen, and a computed tomography (CT) scan, which demonstrated a large complex mass in the region of ...