Source/description: Recently, a genome scan has revealed chromosomal regions associated with porcine hernia inguinalis/scrotalis on SSC3, 6, 7, 12 and 15. In humans, it has been proposed that the smooth muscles around the processus vaginalis must undergo apoptosis to prevent congenital herniation. In subsequent studies we successfully assigned genes involved in apoptosis to the regions. Here we...

An inguinal hernia occurs when an intestinal loop or part of the omentum or genital organs passes into the scrotal cavity or labia through an incompletely obliterated processus vaginalis. Inguinal hernias are most common in preterm neonates, especially at 32-weeks gestation. Content of hernia is mostly bowel and ovary/testicles. Presence of uterus in herniated sac is rare, and only few cases ar...

There have been infrequent reports of congenital and acquired hernias in the nonhuman primate (2, 4, 12, 13). Recently restraint systems have been designed for chronic studies and long-term experimentation. Many of these systems are of the type in which the animal is sitting upright in a chair or cart with cuff devices to limit the motion of the extremities (3, 7). We have noted that these meth...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic obstruction by Wuchereria bancrofti is thought to be the mechanism for development of tropical hydrocele in men and for elephantiasis, mostly in women. Hydrocele prevalence is used to determine the effectiveness of para site eradication programs. METHODS We maintained a prospective log of operations performed at 1 Canadian Field Hospital during its relief mission to Léogâ...

Hydrocephalus in children is either treated by ventriculoperitoneal shunt or Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) dependingupon specific factors pertaining to clinical and radiological diagnosis. There are many complications of shuntand migration peritoneal scrotum, anal canal, urinarry bladder has been reported. The intra abdominal aremanaged a combined team work neurosurgeon Pediatric surge...

Inguinal hernia is the most common and prominent surgical entity among all congenital anomalies, constituting more than 15% of total pediatric surgical cases. Inguinal hernia is directly linked to the descent of the developing gonads in children. A patent processus vaginalis, which precedes an inguinal hernia, is a diverticulum of the peritoneum, formed during gonadal descent around the 12th we...