The development of adhesions in the peritoneal and pelvic cavities, which commonly form after surgery or infection, cause significant morbidity and mortality. However, the pathogenesis of adhesion formation is still poorly understood. Because T cells are important in orchestrating fibrinogenic tissue disorders, we hypothesized that they play a critical role in the pathogenesis of peritoneal adh...

OBJECTIVE Patients who have a greater distribution of intraabdominal adipose tissue as compared with subcutaneous adipose tissue and an increased ratio of intraabdominal adipose tissue to subcutaneous adipose tissue are at greater risk for developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. In previous MR investigations, researchers have used conventional T1-weighted spin-echo image...

Although pathological diagnosis is essential for managing malignant lymphoma, intraabdominal lesions are generally difficult to approach due to the invasiveness of abdominal surgery. Here, we report the use of percutaneous image-guided coaxial core-needle biopsy (CNB) to obtain intraabdominal specimens for diagnosing intraabdominal lymphomas, which typically requires histopathological and immun...

Introduction Peritoneal adhesions have been reported as an adverse side effect of surgery for more than a century and occur in 90-100% of cases. Postoperative adhesion formation results from a series of local events at the trauma site. Peritoneal injury by surgery, infection, or irritation initiates a local inflammatory reaction, exudation, and fibrin deposition into which white blood cells; ma...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects on the renal system in a porcine model of intraabdominal hypertension, and to determine the indirect technique of choice for determination of the intraabdominal pressure. MATERIAL AND METHODS 30 pigs were used divided in two groups according with increased intraabdominal pressure values (20 mmHg and 30 mmHg). In both groups pressures were registered 8 times, sum...

The species and number of bacteria present at a surgical site correlate with postoperative wound infection. When organisms cultured from intraabdominal infections are resistant to the presumptive antimicrobial therapy, the incidence of postoperative wound and intraabdominal infections is significantly increased. Knowledge of operative site culture data allows identification of resistant organis...

We report a case of intra-abdominal testicular tumor in a 36-year-old married lady presenting with chief complaints of primary amenorrhea. The patient was later diagnosed with testicular feminization syndrome, a form of male pseudohermaphroditism. This testicular tumor was histologically proven as seminoma. Due to rarity, imaging findings in patients with testicular feminization syndrome and in...