A 2-year-and-4-month-old girl suffered a burn to the neck due to boiling water. She was examined at another hospital, and recommended to undergo dermatoplasty. Thirteen days after injury, she consulted our hospital. A wide skin defect was observed around the neck, and a third-degree burn was diagnosed. Conservative treatment using electrolyticreduction ion water (ERI) lotion, antibiotics/steroi...

In fictional murder mysteries the person responsible for the crime is often the one least likely to be involved. In contrast, in real life, the culprit is usually the most obvious candidate right from the start. In this particular case, the myocardial collagen matrix is the suspect (and as I shall illustrate, a likely culprit) responsible for at least some of the complications that occur after ...

PURPOSE To identify surgical strategies of fornix reconstruction for symblepharon graded according to the length from the limbus to the lid margin, to the width, and to associated inflammation. DESIGN Retrospective, comparative, interventional case series. METHODS In 61 eyes with symblepharon, cicatrix lysis and amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) were performed with sutures (n = 34) or...

"VY. H. C., set. 26, of the Indian Marine, sent for me on 6th September last to treat his leg. He had recently returned from Sind after a stay there of three years. He exposed a large unhealthy looking sore, about two inches in length and one and a half in breadth, a little below the right knee cap on the tibia. He was in excellent condition : no history of syphilis. He also showed me a large, ...

In the space of seven weeks five natives with cancer have applied for relief at this dispensary ; there was nothing especially remarkable about any of them, but it is rather a large number to occur in such a short space of time among the patients of a dispensary with an average of 12 new in-patients per month exclusive of police cases. JY0_ i.?Sanoo MM, male, aged 45 ; cancer of the right breas...

A CASE OF CYSTIC TUMOUR; OPERATION. By G. D. MacReddie, Esq., Civil Surgeon, Uurdui. Jhubba Thakook, aged 35 years, was admitted into the Hurdui Dispensary on the 9th December, 1872, with a soft tumour, the size of an orange, at the back of the right elbow joint. He stated that eighteen years ago he received a bullet in his arm; a cicatrix about two inches higher up on the posterior aspect of t...