By Surgeon A. Toji.es, Civil Surgeon Midnapore. Apropos of the question of the advisability of puncturing the inflated intestine in obstruction or strangulation, which was raised at a recent meeting of the Calcutta Medical Society. The following notes of a case in which the procedure was completely successful may be of interest. The tapping was not limited to the tumour, it was a case of Strang...

X Y an old man, alleged to be 107 years ol age was brought by his attendants for a painful swelling in the left Inguino scrotal region. This swelling had been present for the last 65 years and used to get reduced into the abdomen on patients lying down. Since the last 24 hours it had become irreducible and painful; there was vomiting and obstipation. The patient was almost totally blind and dea...

Sizable lipomas of spermatic cord were observed in the inguinal canals of 20 percent of adult male patients (N=25) who underwent laparoscopic total extra-peritoneal (TEPP) hernioplasty (N=30) for inguinal hernia. All cord lipomas were associated with a hernial sac – indirect 83% and direct 17%. Two-third of cord lipomas were small (1-2 cm) while one-third were moderate (2-4 cm) in size. All con...

Abstract Acute presentation of an inguinal hernia is a common to general surgery in the United Kingdom (UK). Rarely intra-abdominal organs, outside small bowel and colon, can present within e.g., appendix or bladder. There has been limited publication involving incarcerated containing stomach. We case 84-year-old male with background COPD hypertension who presented Accident & Emergency thre...

We present a case of a young man with a 5-year history of testicular swelling which was initially thought to be inguinoscrotal hernia. Intra-operatively it was found to be a testicular tumour and histopathological examination confirmed a mixed germ cell tumour. He had an orchidectomy and later underwent chemotherapy. It is interesting to note that the patient had kept the tumour for 5 years wit...

A 1-day-old boy with the characteristics of Adams-Oliver syndrome was presented. Adams-Oliver syndrome has a wide spectrum of anomalies ranging from aplasia cutis congenita, cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita and transverse limb defects to lethal anomalies. Our patient had aplasia cutis congenita with scalp, skull and dura defect. He had also a large dura defect with herniation of brain ...