An efficient stomach clamp is one which exerts an even and sufficient pressure across the whole width of the stomach without causing undue trauma at any one point. Very few stomach clamps at present obtainable fulfil these conditions satisfactorily because they ate mainly constructed on the ' bow handle ' principle, or are of the crushing type. All clamps of this type necessarily exert most pre...

On page 55 the introduction of small calories is confusing to the reader. There is an excellent account of the anatomy and physiology of the stomach, and the two chapters on diet in health and disease will be found very useful. The author has devoted two chapters to the general symptoms of stomach diseases and their mode of production, which make for clearness, although they involve some little...

Ingestion of foreign bodies is a common clinical scenario in any emergency department. Presence of thousands ingested foreign bodies inside stomach is a rare scene. However, only a few such cases have been reported. Here we present a case of young adult man with known psychiatric disorder, having 2562 nails in his stomach leading to gastric outlet obstruction. Gastrotomy was employed to relieve...

Intramural metastasis to the stomach (IMMS) from carcinoma esophagus, excluding direct invasion and spread to the stomach, is relatively uncommon. Diagnosis of IMMS is based on histological criteria, and it is associated with poor prognosis (Takubo et al. Cancer 65:1816-1819, 1990]. We report two patients of SCC oesophagus in whom intramural metastasis to stomach has occurred.

UNLABELLED A patient is described who presented with an intrathoracic stomach and spleen two weeks after aortic repair for an aortoduodenal fistula. At an urgent laparotomy the stomach was repositioned and the spleen removed. The patient recovered fully. The possible mechanism of this severe complication is discussed and relevant literature reviewed. KEYWORDS Aortoduodenal fistula; Complicati...