Circumferential bodylift is a powerful procedure for achieving dramatic and natural body contouring changes in the massive weight loss patient. The care of these patients has raised our awareness of several important issues including safety, nutritional status, skin quality, recurrent laxity, surgical steps, and postoperative scars. Integration of this knowledge with various technical modificat...

We report a case of ileo-colonic Histoplasmosis without apparent respiratory involvement in a patient who had previously undergone an orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) for primary biliary cholangitis 15 years earlier. The recipient lived in the United Kingdom, a non-endemic region for Histoplasmosis. However, she had previously lived in rural southern Africa prior to her OLT. The patient presen...

Technical Appendix Figure, panel A). Porcine liver has been implicated as a possible HEV transmission vehicle in that region (6); although we do not know whether the patient ate food that carried HEV, the possibility underscores the importance of avoiding eating inadequately cooked animal-derived food products during international travel (2). Chronic hepatitis with accelerated cirrhosis has bee...

Chopart's amputation is not advocated ir. modern textbooks of surgery. It gives a very good end-bearing stump if properly done and the following case illustrates this point :? A female, aged 25 years, destitute, was admitted in 1935 for a swelling on the forehead. In her childhood at the age of 10 years, she sustained a railway accident as a result of which her right foot was crushed and was am...

Abdominal wall endometriosis is rare and its diagnosis is difficult. However, the consequences may be serious, like recurrences or even malignant transformation. We report a rarer case of asymptomatic abdominal wall endometrioma, accidentally found during a surgical procedure for a second cesarean section, in a 39-years old patient, without any relevant history of endometriosis. The tumor was s...

the case of a 52 old women with hodgkin’s disease of 15 years duration is described. during 4 months ago when she be in the remission phase during every 6 months her follow up she complaint with paranoid minds, urinary incontinency, headache, dizziness and blurred vision started. papilledema and left hemiparesia were detected. brain mri pointed to intracranial invasion by the disease. therapeut...

The European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) has as part of its mission “to be the leading organization of Laboratory Medicine in Europe.” Through leadership, the EFLM strives to enhance patient care and improve outcomes by promoting and improving the scientific, professional and clinical aspects of laboratory medicine. To focus on important aspects in laboratory...

We report the case of a 38-year-old man, who developed cutaneous metastases in the left inguinal groove 15 years after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric adenocarcinoma. Histopathologic examination revealed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma cells. They were stained positive for villin, CDX-2, CKpan (AE1/ AE3), CEA, CK8/18, CK19, CK7, EMA, Ki-67 (50%), and negative for S-100, CK20, CD3...

OBJECTIVES To assess satisfaction with life as a whole and 10 domains of life satisfaction in Swedish individuals after a traumatic brain injury, to describe the relationship with demographic, social and injury related variables, and to compare the level of life satisfaction with a Swedish reference sample. SUBJECTS Fifty-one men and sixteen women, 6-15 years after a traumatic brain injury. ...