Occult bladder injury may sometimes go unrecognized during tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedures. We report a case of occult intraperitoneal bladder injury that occurred during a TVT procedure. There was no sign of bladder perforation on the initial cystoscopy, which was performed just after the insertion of the trocar. Signs of general peritonitis appeared after the patient started to voi...

This study discusses the effectiveness of bailiffs in making summons from occult through mass media at Kraksaan Religious Court. Then sub-topic discussion is process carried out by Court and efforts made court to optimize summons. The purpose this find implementation their research was conducted using a descriptive qualitative type. Data acquisition taken primary secondary data. data method mea...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism may be the earliest sign of cancer. Currently, there is a great diversity in practices regarding screening for occult cancer in a person who has an unprovoked venous thromboembolism. We sought to assess the efficacy of a screening strategy for occult cancer that included comprehensive computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis in patients who had a firs...

Address correspondence to: Dr. Henry C. Ho, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, 1080 LMP, New Haven, CT 06520-8019; Tel: 203-785-7012; Fax: 203-737-1755; E-mail: [email protected] Small bowel tumors are a rare cause of occult gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, at times requiring hospitalization and blood transfusion. Capsule endoscopy is a commonly used tool for investigation of occult GI bleeding....

Chest wall tumors are relatively rare, and hematogenous metastasis to the chest wall is very rare. We herein describe a rare case of occult thyroid carcinoma as metastasis to the chest wall in an 80-year-old woman. The patient received detailed examinations of the chest wall tumor, and the results suggested that she had occult thyroid carcinoma. Surgery was then performed to remove all of her t...

Occult breast cancer has frequently been described as presenting as axillary lymph node metastases but rarely as gastrointestinal metastases, Varadarajan et al. (2007). In extremely rare situations, cancerous lesions identified in the gastrointestinal tract have been determined to be metastatic lesions from primary breast cancers, Taal et al. (2000). We report a case of an occult lobular adenoc...

Late-onset epilepsy (LOE) first occurs after 60 years of age and may be due to occult cerebrovascular disease (CVD) which confers an increased risk of stroke. However, patients with late-onset epilepsy are not currently consistently investigated or treated for cerebrovascular risk factors. We discuss how abnormalities of neurovascular unit function, namely, changes in regional cerebral blood fl...

Background Elective neck dissection (END) in patients with salivary gland carcinoma is controversial and there are no universally accepted guidelines. Methods Patients were identified from the Danish Head Neck Cancer Group. Between 2006 2015, 259 primary treated END. Variables potentially associated regional metastases analyzed using logistic regression. recurrence-free survival was calculated ...

Metastases to the scrotal wall are very rare, and being the initial manifestation of occult primary tumours is even rarer. We report on a patient presenting with painless scrotal swelling, attributed to a solid extra-testicular mass found on ultrasonography. Subsequent investigations and surgical exploration revealed it to be a scrotal wall metastasis from an occult gastric primary. To our know...