The musculoskeletal extrapulmonary tuberculosis is uncommon, the upper extremity tuberculosis is not common and the mycobacterial involvement of skin of hands and synovial sheath of tendons is rare. This prospective observational study was undertaken between August  2014 and December 2015 in a tertiary referral hospital. Patients attending with suspected primary tuberculosis of soft tissue...

Surgical treatment alone for locally advanced rectal cancer (T3/T4 or N1 tumors) has been associated with considerably high local recurrence rates. Even with appropriate total mesorectal excision (TME), radical surgery leads to excellent local disease control only in highly selected cases.(Simunovic et al. 2003) In this setting, the need for additional or complementary treatment strategies was ...

UNLABELLED Endoscopic polypectomy of colorectal polyps is a common procedure. However, endoscopic treatment of large polyps (those with a diameter exceeding 2 cm) remains questionable. There is a serious risk of colorectal carcinoma presence inside these lesions, which eventually would require surgical intervention. Apart from this fact endoscopic polypectomy of large polyps is connected with s...

Twelve patients with fibrous dysplasia of the orbit are reviewed and the ophthalmic findings described. Three case histories are presented in detail. Six patients were managed conservatively; four have shown radiological progression of the disease. Six patients underwent surgery. A conservative procedure, comprising debulking dysplastic bone, was carried out in four--all required further surger...

Stewart-Treves syndrome is an angiosarcoma that occurs because of chronic lymphedema, which in most cases is a complication after mastectomy with axillary node dissection and postoperative radiation. Prognosis for this rare tumor is poor. The best therapy is early and radical excision. Chronic lymphedema seems to be an important pathogenic factor. We report a 59-year-old patient with chronic ly...

Abstract Objective To evaluate functional outcomes and quality of life (QOL) associated with `wait-and-watch’ (WW) strategy local-excision (LE) rectal tumours after neo-adjuvant therapy, in comparison to the standard practice total-mesorectal-excision (TME) for locally-advanced-rectal-cancers. Data Sources Medline, EMBASE, PubMed databases, sources Grey literature. Study Selection Randomised no...