Abstract Introduction Laparoscopy is the gold-standard approach to elective abdominal surgery. Nevertheless, its application trauma, including treatment of haemoperitoneum, has been historically challenged by links missed injuries. The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery does not clearly recommend therapeutic laparoscopy in despite recognised potential benefits, light scarcity and poor ...

A 24-year-old man was admitted at the emergency department with a lower quadrant abdominal pain and a slight hypoglycaemia. Abdominal ultrasonography showed the presence of a fluid peritoneal collection and a 3.2 x 2.5 cm hypoisoechogenic mass closed to the left iliac vessels with an echo-color-Doppler pattern similar to that of a hamartoma. CT examination confirmed the hypothesis of a vascular...

Massive hemoperitoneum secondary to ruptured corpus luteum is a rare but serious and life-threatening complication for women with congenital bleeding disorders and may lead to surgical interventions and even oophorectomy. Congenital afibrinogenemia is a rare inherited coagulation disorder. As it can be asymptomatic, its clinical manifestations vary from minimal tendency of bleeding to life-thre...

Case report A 79-year-old woman was admitted to hospital suffering from abdominal pain and vomiting. The pain had started in the epigastrium 12 hr earlier, and radiated to both shoulders. She was being treated for atrial fibrillation and hypertension with digoxin, diuretics and methyldopa. She was neither pyrexial nor shocked (BP 140/ 70 mmHg). The upper abdomen was slightly tender and bowel so...

Case. A 59-year-old woman was maintained on peritoneal dialysis for end-stage renal failure due to primary amyloidosis complicated by acute crescentic glomerulonephritis. She had suffered no previous complications related to peritoneal dialysis. She had a minor fall down two stairs and attended the casualty department on the following day with right hip pain. Her peritoneal dialysis fluid was c...

BACKGROUND The incidence of rudimentary heterotopic uterine horn pregnancy varies from 1:76,000 to 1:140,000. However the incidence of twin pregnancy i.e. intrauterine pregnancy in unicornuate uterus and its associated rudimentary horn pregnancy is estimated to be around 1 in 10 million gestations. CASE Here, we present 19 year old pramigravida women with acute haemoperitoneum with diagnosis ...