scesses formed, pieces of bone came away, and a purulent discharge has lasted since then. He was admitted into the hospital on 28th April, for syphilitic necrosis of the head and upper part of the shaft of the left tibia. There were several cloaca, exuding fetid pus in large quantity, round the head of the bone and, in front below the tubercle, there was a large circular gap surrounded by scler...

A healthy 14-year-old boy with a 3-month history of thigh pain and swelling is referred to a specialist centre with an uncertain diagnosis. After extensive tests and imaging a Brodie's abscess is diagnosed. The abscess is complicated by a fistula (cloaca) through the cortical bone of the femur, resulting in a large complex soft tissue collection. This is a presentation, we are unaware has been ...

Bacterial enumeration and histologic examination of organs and tissues of 8-day-old chicks 7 days after peroral inoculation with Campylobacter jejuni revealed that the organism colonized primarily the lower gastrointestinal tract. The principal sites of localization were the ceca, large intestine, and cloaca, where densely packed cells of C. jejuni were observed in mucus within crypts. Examinat...

The families of 102 index patients with bladder exstrophy treated at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street were studied in an attempt to arrive at an empirical risk of recurrence for sibs. Of the 102 patients, 89 had complete exstrophy, eight had partial exstrophy (variant), and five had exstrophy of the cloaca. In all they had 162 sibs, none of whom had bladder exstrophy. The ris...

In the hen, injection of either vasotocin or oxytocin caused expulsion of the egg 1 to 20 hr prematurely (Rzasa & Ewy, 1970). The effect of these hormones on pressure within the uterus (shell gland) is reported. Fifteen New Hampshire, laying hens (no egg in utero) were used. Hens were anaesthetized with sodium phenobarbitone (160 mg/kg) injected i.m. Intrauterine pressure was recorded on a kymo...