Snakebites by the viper snake Cerastes cerastes are quite common across the world but rarely published with regard to their mostly benign course. The reported case study depicts the envenoming of a 36-year-old Czech man, a private herpetologist, who suffered snakebite to his finger. He developed a painful local reaction with hemorrhagic oedema. Subsequently, consumption coagulopathy with thromb...

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast responsible for disseminated meningitis in immunocompromised hosts. Controversies persist on the existence of primary cutaneous cryptococcosis (PCC) versus cutaneous cryptococcosis being only secondary to hematogenous dissemination. Thus, we reviewed cryptococcosis cases associated with skin lesions reported in the French National Registry. Patie...

OBJECTIVE To establish the accuracy of unenhanced CT in the preoperative diagnosis of acute appendicitis. DESIGN Accuracy study, prospective and blinded. SETTING The University Hospital. PARTICIPANTS 52 patients with clinical and laboratorial manifestations of acute appendicitis. CT diagnosis was made by: presence of an abnormal appendix, appendiceal calculi with pericecal phlegmon or alt...

HYPOTHESIS Although experience with laparoscopic colectomy continues to accumulate, criteria for patient selection for the procedure have yet to be developed. We propose that review of indications for conversion to laparotomy during laparoscopic colectomy should define some of the current technical limitations of the procedure. This information may facilitate development of selection criteria f...

INTRODUCTION The study was carried out to ascertain the effects of perftoran in the treatment of facial and Dupuytren's phlegmons with simultaneous estimation of the general reaction in humans. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy-six patients with facial or Dupuytren's phlegmons were divided into 2 groups, one with mild and the other with a severe course of the inflammatory process. Each group was s...