The experience of vaginal tubectomy in 5214 cases over a period of 6 years is presented. Complications and failure rates following vaginal tubectomy were minimal. The main advantages over abdominal tubectomy were a relatively short operation (under local anaesthesia and analgesia) no hos. pitalization, minimal post operative complications and discomforts with no abdominal scars (JPMA 35 301, 19...

Scar endometriosis is an under-appreciated or misdiagnosed phenomenon in general surgery and may eventually be more common than reflected in the literature. We herein report five cases of scar endometriosis that were treated in our surgical department one to five years after Caesarean section. Scar endometriosis should be considered when the symptoms are present in a cyclic manner mostly after ...

Up to 60 percent of adults report that they have had nocturnal leg cramps. The recurrent, painful tightening usually occurs in the calf muscles and can cause severe insomnia. The exact mechanism is unknown, but the cramps are probably caused by muscle fatigue and nerve dysfunction rather than electrolyte or other abnormalities. Nocturnal leg cramps are associated with vascular disease, lumbar c...

THE “GRAY-COLORED TUMOR” OF alpha-methyl-dopa treatment and not proven to have pheochromocytoma have been the basis for “normal” values. At least two of these patients with values considered “normal” have undergone celiotomy and an abdominal pheochromocytoma was not found. Multiple follow-up studies have indicated the others not to have the tumor. THE ADRENAL medulla has fascinated physicians f...

abstract background: pain resulting from muscle cramps is one of the most common outcomes of hemodialysis. one of the mechanisms associated with muscle cramps is unnatural muscle metabolism. because acupressure improves muscle metabolism through the releasing of energy, this study was performed with the purpose of determining the impact of acupressure on muscle cramps. materials and methods: th...

An 18-day-old neonate presented with fever and abdominal distension. Renal subcapsular abscess was diagnosed with sonography and CT scan. Percutaneous drainage resulted in aspiration of 20 mL of pus, which grew Staphylococcus aureus.

Cristina Cudalbu, Valérie A McLin, Hongxia Lei, Joao M.N. Duarte, Anne-Laure Rougemont, Graziano Oldani, Sylvain Terraz, Christian Toso, and Rolf Gruetter Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Département de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Unité de Gastroentérologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires d...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is an uncommon disease of unknown etiology reported in both adult and pediatric age group. Here we report a case of a 46-year-old HIV positive female who presented to us with ascites and abdominal distension with peripheral eosinophilia and diagnosed as EGE.

This report deals with a young man having prolonged fever presenting with hypercalcaemic crisis. Subsequent investigations confirmed tuberculosis (TB) peritonitis in the absence of pulmonary involvement as the cause of his symptoms. His hypercalcaemia and fever resolved with anti-TB therapy. Abdominal TB needs to be included in the differential diagnosis of otherwise unexplained hypercalcaemia ...

M. N. Y., a young Burmese woman aged 17 years and 10 months, was admitted to hospital on 2-lth September, 1934, on account of a large abdominal tumour. History.?This tumour was first noticed between one and two years previously and had subsequently increased steadily in size. She had been married for nine months. She had amenorrhcea for two months. The menses previously had been regular. Beyond...