BACKGROUND Our aim was to summarize the treatment of degloving injury involving multiple fingers using combined abdominal superficial fascial flap, dorsalis pedis flap, dorsal toe flap, and toe-web flap. PATIENTS AND METHODS Each degloved finger was debrided under microscopic guidance and embedded in the superficial layer of the abdominal fascia. The abdominal skin was sutured to the skin on ...

The measurement of the maximum circumference of the head is a part of the routine physical examination of any baby, just as much as examination of the heart, chest, and abdomen, as examination of the hips for subluxation, of the urine for phenylpyruvic acid, and ofthe hearing after the age of 3 or 4 months, The importance of measuring the head circumference lies partly in the early detection of...

The term 'acute abdomen' represents a rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate life-threatening intra-abdominal pathology. Pain is usually a feature but is not always the case. A pain-free acute abdomen is more likely in the elderly, in children and in the third trimester of pregnancy. [1] The differential diagnosis is extremely wide and definitive diagnosis is often difficult, particul...

On the 15th August, 1930, S., a well developed Hindu girl of 16, was brought to my dispensary from a near by village, for retention of urine and severe pain of a bursting type in the lower abdomen. The history obtained was of a very vague type, and all that could be gathered from her parents, was that the trouble commenced some 20 days previously when the patient had sudden pain in the abdomen ...

The patient is a 92-year-old woman, with no medical-surgical history of interest, who reported abdominal pain and fecal vomiting over the previous 24 h. Upon examination, the abdomen was diffusely painful, with no peritoneal irritation, epigastric tympanites and dullness to percussion in the rest of the abdomen. Computed tomography detected an abdominal cystic mass measuring 22 14 cm that occup...

In Calliphoridae and Drosophilidae, the dorsal vessel (heart and aorta with associated venous channels) is the only connection between the thorax and the abdomen. Hemolymph oscillates between the compartments by periodic heartbeat reversal, but both the mechanism and its influence on hemocoelic and tracheal pressure have remained unclear. The pumping direction of the heart regularly reverses, w...

Case presentation: This report aims to describe the case of a patient with rare diagnosis type 1D pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH1D), resulting from alteration EXOSC9 gene. G. T. S. D. S., male, 1 year and 2 months old, fruit unplanned pregnancy non-consanguineous parents. Prenatal care was complete. The born by vaginal delivery without complications, 36 weeks 6 days gestational age, following ...

background: radiation-induced discomfort is frequently observed during pelvic radiotherapy. this study was performed to determine the effect of a green tea tablet to reduce the incidence of radiation-induced diarrhea and vomiting in patients with abdomen and pelvic malignancy. materials and methods: this randomized controlled clinical trial recruited 42 patients with abdomen and pelvic malignan...

a woman presenting with severe right lower quadrant (rlq) abdominal pain is presented here. she was evaluated for all usual cause of such pain. laboratory tests and abdominal and pelvic sonography was normal. mri revealed l1-l2 disc herniation.