A 29-year-old mentally ill farmer underwent microsurgery for the resuturing of the penis and testicles which he himself had chopped off with an ax. Microsurgery of the urethra, corpora cavernosa, arteries and veins was begun 10 h after the trauma. The veins, arteries and testicles were anastomosed and covered with a free flap of the scrotum skin. Three weeks after surgery, the anastomosed teste...

In India, information regarding the incidence of cancer is very incomplete. Patients frequently present themselves at an out-patient department in an inoperable condition and are therefore not admitted. Hospital in-patients records are therefore very unreliable; some valuable information is available from outpatient departments. One attempt was made by the author to carefully classify, record, ...