description of it may be acceptable. The aim of the operation is to perform enterorraphy without opening the general peritoneal cavity; and this is managed by detaching from the parietes all round the fistula or anus sufficient peritoneum to permit delivery of the gut through a parietal incision without separating it from its peritoneal adhesions. It is unnecessary to emphasise the importance o...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) syndrome is an uncommon, slowly progressive condition that usually arises from perforation of an adenoma in the appendix. PMP syndrome is characterized by mucin accumulation in the peritoneal cavity. Mucinous implants are found on all peritoneal surfaces and the omentum. PMP syndrome rarely metastasizes outside the abdominal cavity but remains a fatal illness as the...

BACKGROUND Although various inflammatory mediators have been previously shown to be released into the peritoneal cavity during peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients, those that are involved in governing changes in peritoneal permeability to small solutes and protein remain incompletely defined. METHODS We determined the importance of prostanoid production in the enhanced protein loss ob...

The intrauterine contraceptive device is a popular form of contraception for women; however, it does carry a rare but serious risk of migration into the myometrium and then into the peritoneal cavity. We report an unusual case of an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) migrating through the uterus into the peritoneal cavity and subsequently into the sigmoid colon, which was finally retrieve...

Abdominal pregnancies are a small fraction of ectopic pregnancies. They usually implant on the peritoneal surface after partial disruption of the initial implantation site in the tubes. The pelvic cavity is the preferential site, but they have been reported from all over the peritoneal cavity. In the present case the pregnancy was situated on the surface of the right liver lobe. Abdominal pregn...

The peritoneum is the largest serous membrane of the body. It is a completely closed sac in the male and opens to the exterior through the genital tract in the female. It is lined by simple squamous epithelium called mesothelium. It secretes a small quantity of serous fluid, which eases the movement of the movable organs of the abdomen. The abdominal and pelvic organs are classified as extraper...

Cyst hydatid disease is a parasitic zoonosis caused by the larvae of tapeworm belonging to Echinococcus species. While can affect almost any part human body, liver and lung are two organs where most frequently detected. Peritoneal involvement may develop following hepatic cyst surgery or as result spontaneous micro-ruptures into peritoneal cavity. However, with only few reported cases, primary ...

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer-related deaths in Western countries. Main reason is that the disease is frequently asymptomatic in its early stage and is found only when cancer has already spread outside the pelvis and disseminated throughout the abdominal cavity. As the disease progress, many EOC patients have accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal c...

Excessive neutrophil activation is a major component in septic lung injury. Neutrophil-derived DNA may form extracellular traps in response to bacterial invasions. The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential role of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in septic lung injury. Male C57BL/6 mice were treated with recombinant human (rh)DNAse (5 mg/kg) after cecal ligation and pun...

Peritoneal mast cells and macrophages are commonly used to study functions of these two types of cells (1-3). Although many investigators have studied the production of peritoneal macrophages both in vivo (4-6) and in vitro (7, 8), only a few investigators have taken an interest in production of peritoneal mast cells (9-11). Both mast cells and macrophages are the progeny of the multipotential ...