Opisthorchis viverrini is endemic in the South East Asian region, especially in Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Vietnam and Thailand, but there have been no previous records from Myanmar. During stool surveys of rural populations in three regions of Lower Myanmar, Opisthorchis-like eggs were found in 34 out of 364 (9.3%) participants by stool microscopy after using the modified form...

OBJECTIVE In this study, morphometric developments of the sphincter of Oddi in human fetuses were observed. MATERIAL AND METHODS We observed 113 human fetuses consisting of 67 male and 46 female subjects, whose ages varied between 14 to 40 weeks who showed no signs of any pathology or anomaly externally. The common external measurements of fetuses were carried out, followed by abdominal disse...

Thb eight cases of ectopic gestation here reported have been treated during the past year in the Government Maternity Hospital, Madras and, as a whole, they are instruct ive and interesting. I may premise my remarks by stating the routine treatment employed in the hospital in all cases of abdominal section. The abdomen is first washed with soap and water, then turpentine is rubbed over it, and ...

History and definitions In 1681 Glisson described a sphincter at the end of the common bile duct, which allowed bile to flow intermittently into the duodenum.' Exactly 200 years later, Oddi portrayed the sphincteric mechanism in greater detail,2 but it was not until 1957 that Boyden unravelled the complexity ofthe anatomical sphincter surrounding the terminus of the common bile duct and pancrea...