INTRODUCTION Congenital jejunal stenosis and gastric duplication cysts are very rare congenital anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract in the newborn. We present a case of congenital membranous jejunal stenosis associated with gastric duplication cysts, which was diagnosed by ultrasonography. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of ultrasonographic diagnosis of congenital mem...

acute appendicitis is a common occurrence in childhood, but this diagnosis is considered rarely in differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in the neonatal period because its occurrence is very rare in neonates. we report a 20-day- old afghan female baby that was admitted to neonatal intensive care unit, because of irritability and abdominal distension. complete ultrasound of abdomen and pelvis ...

Abdominal cocoon syndrome (ACS) is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction characterized by partial or complete encasement loops in thick fibro-collagenous sac. It poses diagnostic difficulties due to the non-specific nature its presentation and thus most cases, diagnosed incidentally at laparotomy.The researchers present case 27-year old female Ugandan who presented rural hospital Northern Uga...

Neonatal appendicitis (NA) is an extremely rare acute abdomen condition, moreover, if it a chronic suppurative one. The definite risk factor of NA barely unknown. signs and symptoms are often nonspecific appear after perforation occurs. Most the cases were found unexpectedly during surgery suspected as other diagnoses. A 7-day-old male neonate presenting lethargic hypoglycemia since 1 st day li...

Gastric volvulus is a significant, rare cause of non-bilious vomiting and consists of a pathological rotation of the stomach of more than 180° around the axis without obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. A definitive diagnosis is made with upper radiological gastrointestinal studies. Treatment may be conservative or surgical with anterior and fundal gastropexy in patients with ingravescen...

BACKGROUND In patients with intestinal malrotation, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis can be difficult due to atypical presentation. Duodenal obstruction caused by acute appendicitis with the presence of malrotation has rarely been reported in children. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 14-year-old male patient with bilious vomiting and abdominal distension. A diagnosis could not be made ...

A 10-year-old boy presented with a 40hhistory of progressive epigastric and right hypochondrial pain, non-bilious vomiting, constipation and failure to pass flatus. There was no history of injury. He was known to have hemophilia A with recurrent bleeding (easy bruising, hemarthroses, intramuscular hematomas and prolonged wound bleeding) which responded to factor VIII therapy. His parents were c...

Dear Sir,?Since Dr. Beafcson, the present Civil Surgeon of Bhagalpore, advise 1 me to use Tinct. Aconite in acute dysentery, I tried it in several cases and met with marvellous results. After administering it for 21 hours according to the mode he instructed me, i. e., one minim every half hour for 8 or 10 hours, and then one minim every hour, I found the blood almost disappeared from the stools...

The gastrointestinal duplication of stomach is uncommon congenital anomalies of gastrointestinal tract. Herein a rare case of gastric duplication with newborn is being reported. A 14-day-old term female baby was admitted to our clinic with intermittent bilious vomiting and abdominal distention. In evaluation, abdominal cystic mass was detected in the left upper quadrant. The cyst which was atta...

Biliary-pleural fistula (BPF), an abnormal communication between the biliary tract and pleural space, is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication following percutaneous biliary intervention. We report a case of BPF following portal vein embolization (PVE) in a 79-year-old woman with obstructive jaundice secondary to perihilar cholangiocarcinoma. The patient successfully underwent ri...